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| c. 200 BC |
| | | The Mochica develop a civilization, in the north of modern Peru, known for its realistic pottery sculpture | |
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| c. 120 BC |
| | | Antipater, a Greek author living on the Phoenician coast, lists the seven wonders of the world | |
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| c. 100 BC |
| | | A Venus is carved in marble, and centuries later becomes an ideal of female beauty after being found on the island of Milo | |
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| c. 100 BC |
| | | Hindu temple sculptors develop a sinuous and full-bodied style for the naked female form | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | A naturalistic style of Buddhist sculpture develops in the Gandhara region, part of modern Pakistan | |
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| c. 100 |
| | | Sculptors in the Roman empire develop the most brutally realistic convention in the history of portraiture | |
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| c. 165 |
| | | The bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, on the Capitol in Rome, begins a long European tradition of public sculpture | |
|  | Marcus Aurelius, equestrian statue, 2nd century AD
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| c. 230 |
| | | Ardashir, the Persian king, commissions a relief of himself in triumphant mood - carved high on a rock face at Naqsh-e Rustam | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Small ivory panels, with Gospel scenes carved in relief, provide a delicate beginning to the story of Christian sculpture | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | A phallic figure, the Cerne Giant, is cut on a Dorset hillside at Cerne Abbas | |
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