Antenor (sculptor)

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Antenor-Kore

Antenor was an archaic sculptor who worked mainly in Athens .

Antenor probably came from a family of artists. His father was called Eumares and was possibly a painter, at least Pliny the Elder reports a painter Eumarus for this period. His father may also have worked as a sculptor. Some inscriptions from the Athens Acropolis can be related to Antenor. However, it is not entirely certain whether ... andr [os] is the remainder of a brother's name on an inscription. One son was probably called Dionysermos. Antenor worked in the late Archaic period both for the Alkmaionids and after their expulsion for the new democratic system.

Antenor created numerous late Archaic Koren and Kuroi . The so-called Antenor-Kore , which dates from around 530/20 BC , is particularly well known . After the reconstruction of the base inscription, other dates assume that the statue was around the year 510 BC. BC came to the establishment - on the Athenian Acropolis in the Athena Temple was erected and the 480 BC. Was damaged by the destruction by the Persians. The figure was separated from the base. The statue was found in fragments under the Persian rubble like many other statuary works of art. The base, which was assigned to the statue , mentions not only the sculptor in a dedicatory inscription , but also the founder Nearchus, who is mostly associated with the man from the 2nd quarter of the 6th century BC. Known potter Nearchus identified. This statue is the only one that can with some probability be attributed to Antenor; many researchers consider it the only surviving work of the artist. It is located in the Acropolis Museum, Athens.

Several works are attributed to Antenor, his workshop or his circle, including in particular the Koren on the east gable of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi , which was sponsored by the Alkmaionids and whose gable shows the entry of Apollo into Delphi. It is unclear whether Antenor's involvement beyond the Koren can be assumed right through to the overall conception of the work. Pierre de La Coste-Messelière and Karl Schefold also assigned him the Poros figures Gigantomachie on the west gable of the temple. The assignment of the “Theseus Antiope Group” on the east pediment of the Temple of Apollon Daphnephoros in Eretria , now in the Museum of Chalkis , is unlikely. The assignment of the so-called sibling stele in the Metropolitan Museum of New York City by Christos Karusos in 1961 is unanimously rejected in research. An attribution of the grave statue of Kroisos from Anavyssos in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is also not accepted.

After the tyrant Hippias was driven out in 510 BC. After the attack on Hippias' brother Hipparchus in 514 BC , statues were made for the Assassins, Harmodios and Aristogeiton , killed in BC , placed on the agora . This first bronze group of the murderers of tyrants by the sculptor Antenor was made in 480 BC. Brought to Susa by the Persian king Xerxes during the temporary occupation of Athens . After the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great, he had them brought back to Athens. As a replacement, Kritios and Nesiotes created the group of tyrannicide in the strict style . This "Younger Tyrannicide Group" has been handed down through Roman copies. The Antenor's “older tyrannicide group”, on the other hand, is lost, and the allocation of copies of individual parts of the group is very controversial. We actually know about the older group from the Greek travel writer Pausanias .

Nothing is known of any possible students of Antenor.

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  1. ↑ Pliny: Naturalis historia 35, 56.
  2. ^ Franz Studniczka: Antenor the son of Eumares and the history of archaic painting. In: Yearbook of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute. Vol. 2, 1887, pp. 135-168, here: p. 141; doubtful, for example: Ernest Arthur Gardner in: Journal of Hellenic Studies . Vol. 10, 1889, p. 278; Guy Dickins: Catalog of the Acropolis Museum. Volume 1: Archaic sculpture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1912, pp. 228-232; Humfry Payne, Gerard Mackworth Young: Archaic marble sculpture from the Acropolis. Cresset Press, London 1950, p. 31.
  3. ^ Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) I³ 628 .
  4. ↑ Inventory number 11.185, fragments in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities , inventory number Sk 1531.
  5. ↑ Inventory number 4754.
personal data
SURNAME Antenor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Late Archaic Greek sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.