Kritios
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Nesiotes
)Kritios (
Athenian sculptor, probably a pupil of Antenor, working in the early 5th century BCE, whose manner is on the cusp of the Late Archaic and the Severe style of Early Classicism in Attica. He was the teacher of Myron. With Nesiotes (Νησιώτης,) Kritios made the replacement of the Tyrannicides ("Tyrant-killers") group[1] by Antenor, which had been carried off by the Persians in the first stage of the Greco-Persian Wars.[2] The new group stood in the Agora of Athens
and its composition is known from Roman copies.
With Nesiotes Kritios made other statues, of bronze, dedicated on the
Neoclassical sculpture
, as it would have done if it had been known a century earlier.
See also
References
- ^ The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant Hipparchus.
- ISBN 978-91-85086-00-9.
The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant
Hipparchus
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kritios.
- Acropolis sculptures: The Kritios Boy
- R. Ross Holloway, The Hand of Daedalus, ch II "The Fateful Year 480 in the History of Greek Art" Kritios in context.
- The Calf-Bearer and the Kritian Boy at the dig site on the Acropolis, 1865.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 470.