Neo-Attic

Refers to the style of sculptors of the first century BCE to the second century CE who added the epithet "Athenaios" to their signatures, according to the classification scheme of the nineteenth-century art historian, Heinrich Brunn. The sculpture was produced for rich patrons in Greece, Pergamon, Alexandria, and Italy. The style is characterized by the copying or adaptation of famous earlier Greek sculptures, and it was important in transmitting Classical Greek style to Romans and later western European culture. It is distinguished by its formalism and artificiality, which is unlike the realism typical of other Roman art of this period.