Calamis (4th century BC)

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Calamis (

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References

  1. ^ Karl Julius Sillig, Pliny (the Elder) (1837). Dictionary of the artists of antiquity: architects, carvers, engravers, modellers, painters, sculptors, statuaries, and workers in bronze, gold, ivory, and silver, with three chronological tables. Black and Armstrong. p. 34. Retrieved August 12, 2012. Thus we must reckon two distinct statues of Apollo made by Calamis; and to these we must add a third, of colossal magnitude, which he made for the inhabitants of Apollonia, a city of Myricum, and which M. Lucullus removed to Rome, and ...
  2. . Just as his younger contemporary Myron, Calamis worked for patrons, cities and individuals of oligarchic disposition. His creations were destined especially for the Peloponnese, in particular Olympia, Athens, and Boeotia, although a few also ...