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Hellenistic architecture

Art movementHellenistic artFrom left to right:the Venus de Milo, discovered at the Greek island of Milos, 130–100 BC, Louvrethe Winged Victory of Samothrace, from the island of Samothrace, 200–190 BC, LouvrePergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum, Berlin.Hades abducting Persephone, fresco in the royal tomb at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece, c. 340 BCHellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with the conquest of the Greek world by the Romans, a process well underway by 146 BC, when the Greek mainland was taken, and essentially ending in 30 BC with the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt following the Battle of Actium.

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