Kresilas
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Kresilas was a Greek sculptor from Kydonia. He lived in the 5th century BC.
He worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war. There he created, for example a bronze statue of Pericles (440-430 B.C.) with the Corinthian helmet upon the head as sign of his position as strategos. [1] its base was found in the Athenian Acropolis; it was doubtless the bronze that Pausanius saw there (I.25.1, I.28.2). It seems the series of Pericles portrait busts derive from it. Kresilas was a follower of the idealistic portraiture of Myron.
He also created the wounded men and a dying Amazon for Ephesus in concurrence (in a competition with Pheidias and Polyclitus), possibly the model for many copies, one of which is the wounded Amazon of Kresilas (volnerata; Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 75) is in the Vatican Museums.
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Cresilas did...the Olympian Pericles, a figure worthy of its title; indeed it is a marvellous thing about the art of sculpture that it has added celebrity to men already celebrated." (Pliny, Natural History, XXXIV.74)
[edit] Literature
- Der Neue Pauly Vol. 6 (1999) ISBN 3-476-01476-2
[edit] External links
- [1] picture of an Amazon
- Busts of Pericles
