Category Archives: Sculptors

Praxiteles

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Praxiteles (flourished ca. 370 B.C.–330 B.C.) One of the most skilled and widely admired of the ancient Greek sculptors. Praxiteles,who hailed from Athens, was most famous for his statues of nude people, especially women, having ideal, often heroic physical attributes. … Continue reading →

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Callicrates

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Callicrates aslo read as Kallicrates, was along with Ictinus an architect of the famous Parthenon. He was a renown architect of the ancient Greece, and has lived and created his great works sometime in the 5th century B.C. He is … Continue reading →

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Phidias

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Phidias(ca. 490 B.C.–ca. 425 B.C.) A noted Athenian sculptor, best known for the giant statue of Zeus at Olympia and the magnificent sculptures on the outside and inside of the Parthenon. The great image of Zeus, which sat inside the … Continue reading →

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