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Greek and sculptor
The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.
* 1851 – Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor ( d. 1938 )
Alcamenes () was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC.
The Roman writer Vitruvius credited the invention of the Corinthian order to Callimachus, a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BCE.
In this play, Booth portrayed a Greek sculptor in costume, making marble statues come to life.
The museum also contains some sculptures by famous sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, another native of Montauban, as well as collections of antiquities ( Greek vases ) and 18th and 19th ceramics.
* Epigonus ( 3rd century BC ) Greek sculptor
* Phidias, Greek sculptor ( 490 BC – c.
* c. 430 BC — death of Phidias, Greek sculptor
* April 7 – El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos ( Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect ( b. 1541 )
** El Greco, or Domênikos Theotokópoulos ( Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ), Cretian painter, sculptor and architect ( died 1614 )
The architectural design of the building was credited in antiquity to the sculptor Polykleitos the Younger, son of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos the Elder.
Much later, the Roman writer Vitruvius ( c. 75 BCE – c. 15 BCE ) related that the Corinthian order had been invented by Callimachus, a Greek architect and sculptor who was inspired by the sight of a votive basket that had been left on the grave of a young girl.
** Phidias, Greek sculptor ( d. c. 430 BC )
** Phidias, Greek sculptor ( b. c. 480 BC )
* 435 Phidias, Greek sculptor, completes Zeus at Elis 1 of 7 wonders
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias, circa 432 BCE on the site where it was erected in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece.
The seated statue, was created by the Greek sculptor Phidias ( 39 feet tall ), occupied half of the width of the aisle of the temple built to house it.
Pheidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends ( 1868 ) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaPhidias, or The Great Pheidias ( in Ancient Greek, ; circa 480 – 430 BC ), was a Greek sculptor, painter and architect, who lived in the 5th century BC, and is commonly regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of Classical Greece: Phidias ' Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
* Phidias, Greek sculptor ( approximate date ) ( b. c. 480 BC )
* Archelaus of Priene, an ancient Greek sculptor
A bronze statue of Kairos is known in literature, made by the famous Greek sculptor Lysippos.
* Chrysothemis, an ancient Greek sculptor.

Greek and Polykleitos
Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
According to the canon of the Classical Greek Sculptor Polykleitos in the 4th century BC, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc.
* Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works Polykleitos of Argos, 16. 72
The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists, Apelles and Polykleitos.
Polykleitos ( or Polyklitos, Polycleitus, Polyclitus ; Greek Πολύκλειτος ); called the Elder, was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early 4th century BCE.
Polykleitos, along with Phidias, created the Classical Greek style.
Polykleitos and Phidias were of the first generation of Greek sculptors to have a schools of followers.
* Polykleitos, Ancient Greek sculptor
** Polykleitos the Younger, the Greek sculptor's son
Polykleitos the Younger () ( circa 4th century BC ) was an ancient Greek sculptor of athletes.
He was the son of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos, the Elder.
Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is in his art a successor of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos.
According to his findings, the altar was erected between 166 and 156 BC as a general victory monument commemorating the triumphs of the Pergamenes, and especially of Eumenes II, over the Macedonians, the Galatians and the Seleucids, and was designed by Phyromachos, the seventh and last of the greatest Greek sculptors, who included Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Scopas, Praxiteles and Lysippos.
The objects included a Greek red-figure kylix from the 5th-century BC, signed by the painter Onesimos and the potter Euphronios as potter, looted from the Etruscan site of Cerveteri ; a torso of the god Mithra from the 2nd-century AD, and the head of a youth by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos.
" Polykleitos ", in O. Palagia and J. J. Pollitt, eds, Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture ( Yale Classical Studies XXX ) ( Cambridge University Press ) 1998: 66-90.

Greek and designed
My other nugget of art and architectural knowledge -- besides remembering that it was Ghiberti who designed the doors of the baptistery in Florence -- is the three styles of Greek columns.
( It is probable that, under the classical tutelage of Asser, Alfred utilised the design of Greek and Roman warships, with high sides, designed for fighting rather than for navigation.
The Duveen Gallery, sited to the west of the Egyptian, Greek & Assyrian sculpture galleries, was designed to house the Elgin Marbles by the American Beaux-Arts architect John Russell Pope.
Linnaeus entered the Växjö Gymnasium in 1724, where he studied mainly Greek, Hebrew, theology and mathematics, a curriculum designed for boys preparing for the priesthood.
It was interred in a mausoleum shaped like a temple erected in ancient Greek style designed by Ernst Ziller in the form of a pedimental sculpture.
In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos ) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.
In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed and patented a similar game – which he called sphairistike (, from ancient Greek meaning " skill at playing at ball "), and was soon known simply as " sticky " — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.
It was designed by the Greek scientists Isidore of Miletus, a physicist, and Anthemius of Tralles, a mathematician.
It is a Greek variant designed by Matthew Carter, based on sketches from Hermann Zapf.
Ancient examples of carefully planned and designed cities exist in Asia, India, Africa, Europe and the Americas, and are particularly well-known within Classical Chinese, Roman and Greek cultures ( see Hippodamus of Miletus ).
Although Strabo cited the antique Greek astronomers Eratosthenes and Hipparchus, acknowledging their astronomical and mathematical efforts towards geography, he claimed that a descriptive approach was more practical, such that his works were designed for statesmen who were more anthropologically than numerically concerned with the character of countries and regions.
The Michel B. Menard House, built in 1838 and oldest in Galveston, is designed in the Greek revival style.
Northington Grange England-Europe's first house designed with all external detail of a Greek temple.
They were all designed by Georgios Stamatopoulos with the minor coins depicting Greek ships, the middle ones portraying famous Greeks and the two large denominations showing images of Greek history and mythology.
One of the flags used in Thessaly during the Greek War of Independence ( designed by Anthimos Gazis ).
In 1829 the Old Capitol, the third Capitol of Kentucky, was built in the Greek Revival style, designed by Gideon Shryock.
* After a two years ' siege, Roman general, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, gradually forces his way into Syracuse and takes it in the face of strong Carthaginian reinforcements and despite the use of engines of war designed by the Greek mathematician and scientist Archimedes ( such as the Claw of Archimedes ).
The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.
In another myth, designed to explain their name (" tail-men " in Greek ), Zeus changed the Cercopes into monkeys ( from this we have the genus Cercopithecus, identified as the genus of monkeys depicted in Minoan frescoes ).
The 16th-century Renaissance architect and theorist Vincenzo Scamozzi designed a version of such a perfectly four-sided Ionic capital ; Scamozzi's version became so much the standard, that when a Greek Ionic order was eventually reintroduced, in the later 18th century Greek Revival, it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vitality.
Aquia Church, built in 1757 near Garrisonville, Virginia, is unusual among local structures for having been designed on the plan of a Greek cross.

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