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Hellenistic art
The art of the Hellenistic period has long been the victim of the relative disdain attached to the period. Cessavit deinde ars ("then art disappeared") remarks Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (XXXIV, 52), after having described the sculpture of the classical period.
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