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How do Hellenistic sculptors engage the viewer? Compared to Egyptian and early Greek styles of sculpting, Hellenistic sculptures were more naturalistic and anatomically correct in their proportions and facial expressions. Realism is the hallmark of Hellenistic sculptures, as the figures would express more passionate, universal emotional states, including pain and suffering. While religion and morality were often emphasized in these works, they were presented more secularly than in previous eras, which played into the realism much more earnestly. Hellenistic sculptors would engage the viewer by making their sculptures about daily live, and real, nuanced emotion, for the sake of ...