Alexander Mosaic

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Painting · c. 100 BC · Pompeii · Europe

Copy of a lost painting: Alexander versus Darius at Issus, with foreshortening and shadow

Style

Hellenistic art — Greek form after Alexander: passion, motion and theatrical scale from the Nile to the Indus

Century

2nd century BC

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