Alexandros of Antioch
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Alexandros of Antioch (
Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age. He is thought to be the sculptor of the famous Venus de Milo
statue.
Life
Alexandros appears to have been a wandering artist who worked on commission. According to inscriptions at the ancient city of
Melos
. His dates of birth and death are unknown.
Alexandros is best known today for the plinth that was a part of the statue but was removed and "lost" due to museum politics and national pride at the Louvre in the 1820s. The inscription and the style of its lettering cast into doubt the claim that the statue was an original by the master sculptor Praxiteles from Attica.
References
- Gregory Curtis. Disarmed: the Story of the Venus de Milo. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. ISBN 0-375-41523-8
- Statue base : (?) Venus de Milo, online translation of inscriptions at attalus.org
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