Word: grecian
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...Romans, by and large, adopted Greek styles as their own, became the world's first "antique" collectors by buying Grecian art. Workmen throughout the far-flung empire harked back to Periclean models, though the 2nd century Jupiter found in Belgium is Roman in its compact proportions. The Romans' greatest innovation was the realistic portrait, and their skills are powerfully summarized in a fleshy, glowering face, described by Yale Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally...
...sometimes his own worst fate. Iphigenia in Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan's Circle in the Square in a translation by Minos Volanakis, shows men and women undoing themselves through ambition, power, lust, fear, guile and egocentric arrogance. At its heart, however, the play is a Grecian urn of tears, an incomparably moving lament for all who die young in war. Directed with musical cadence and poetic tension by Michael Cacoyannis, the drama drags human folly and grief screaming into the light...
...cold here. So you have to train yourself to ignore it." For years, Nakian has been training exuberantly at his Stamford, Conn., studio by designing huge, flagrant evocations of Greek nymphs and goddesses (see color opposite). Modern U.S. sculpture in classical themes seems a bit like vodka martinis in Grecian urns. Yet Nakian's polylithic Ledas, Hecubas and Olympias are lusted after by some of the most adventurous contemporary curators and collectors in the country...
...Means enslavement from Helos, a Grecian town whose inhabitants were conquered by their militant neighbors, the ancient Spartans, about...
Simply reproduce the Grecian urn he took delight...