Hellenistic period increasingly used portraits. Later Roman copies Spurred by the Roman acquisition, elite consumption and demand for Greek art, both Greek and Roman artists, particularly after the establishment of Roman Greece, sought to reproduce the marble and bronze artworks of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. They did so by creating molds of original sculptures, producing plaster casts that could be sent to any sculptor's workshop of the Mediterranean where these works of art could be duplicated. These were often faithful reproductions of originals, yet other times they fused several elements of various artworks into one group, or simply added Roman portraiture heads to preexisting athletic Greek bodies. See also Alexander the Great Hellenistic civilization Hellenistic Greece Hellenistic period Hellenistic sculpture Art in ancient Greece Pottery of Ancient Greece Ancient Greek vase painting Greek sculpture Hellenistic influence on Indian art Parthian art Bacchic art References and sources References Sources This article draws heavily on the :fr:Art hellénistique article in the French-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of 10 November 2006. Further reading Anderson, Jane E. A. Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Stewart, Andrew F. Art in the Hellenistic World: An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Trofimova, Anna A. Imitatio Alexandri in Hellenistic Art: Portraits of Alexander the Great and Mythological Images. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2012. Zanker, G. Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art''. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. External links Selection of Hellenistic works at the British Museum Selection of Hellenistic works at the Louvre Hellenistic Art, Ancient-Greece.org Hellenistic sculpture sr:Хеленска уметност