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Ancient Greece can feel strangely familiar. The culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, and is widely considered to be the basis of our modern culture. There are multiple pieces of art we see today that originate from Ancient Greece.

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For ancient Greeks capturing the workings of the human body in art became very important. Few large paintings survive from this age, but pot-paintings and sculptures show how Greek art developed. New techniques saw artists depicting the body in ever more realistic ways. This obsession with capturing the human body was to profoundly influence all art that followed.

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One of the most common examples of Greek architecture in the modern world is the column or pillar. The most famous example of Greek architecture is the Parthenon, a grand building with pillars located in Athens. Today, pillars are used in many public buildings such as churches and libraries. There are also pillars in many buildings in Washington D.C., including the White House.

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From the Renaissance onwards, painters used the same techniques and style that drove the ancient Greeks – how to realistically capture the human body. Creating movement and the feeling of living on a flat canvas was seen as extremely difficult. Copying the art of earlier Renaissance artists – who had been directly influenced by ancient art – kept Greek art alive in new forms for centuries.

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Thousands of copies of paintings and sculptures from the Classical and Hellenistic Periods have been created to present the importance and major impacts that Ancient Greek art has made on the modern world.