Pergamon Altar

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Architecture · c. 180 BC–160 BC · Pergamon · Middle East

A 113 m frieze of gods battling giants — antiquity's most violent relief

Pergamon Altar — Lestat (Jan Mehlich) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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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