Greek plastic art s harmony and beauty made it a model throughout history. In spite of that, only a few scholars have researched about these arts in Greek literature. In Plato, for example, other themes such as the poetic and the sophistic arts are usually more approached. This probably occurs because Plato rarely refers to the plastic arts and uses it mostly in comparisons, analogies or metaphors. Even so, in this thesis we have chosen to research the plastic arts in Plato s thought. The main text on mimetic arts in Plato s dialogues is Republic X. In this book the mimetic arts are condemned and banished from the ideal city. With the purpose to obtain an alternative view about these arts from Plato, we ve decided to study some dialogues considered posterior to the Republic, generally considered to represent the ultimate development of Plato s thought. Will this condemnation remain or will his view be modified in his late works? We begin by an analysis of the Sophist, where we find the distinction between two kinds of mimetic art: the divine and the human. According to this distinction, we ve approached the divine and the human aspects of the plastic arts. To do that, we have considered the uses of the arts of painting and sculpture in other two dialogues: the Timaeus and the Laws. In the Timaeus the plastic arts are used to describe the work of the god demiurge who creates the universe; in the Laws, the characters talk about painting and sculpture as men s works, and mostly about their function in the city imagined in the dialogue. According to the passages which we have interpreted, we have outlined Plato s view about these arts, and other than that, we have attempted to understand the place of these arts in Plato s thought in general.