Euphranor from the isthmus

Euphranor of the Isthmus , sometimes also Euphranor of Corinth , active in Corinth and Athens in the middle of the 4th century , was a Greek universal artist . He worked as a painter , sculptor and Toreut .

It is believed that he was a pupil of the painter and sculptor Aristides of Thebes I was. In sculpture he is close to his contemporary Lysippus , with whom he continued the Argive-Sicyon school founded by Polyklet . He tried to reform the proportions adopted by Polyklet, but had little success. The torsos of his figures are a bit too thin and the head and limbs look too big. Nevertheless, his sculptural works enjoyed great popularity. Particularly famous were a refugee Leto with her children Apollo and Artemis in her arms and a statue of Paris , which was sometimes assumed to be a bronze statue of Antikythera. In painting, he created numerous pictures for the Stoa Eleutherios, of which a representation of the Battle of Mantineia was particularly famous. Other works were Theseus and Odysseus, who pretended to be mad .

Of the still preserved handwritten works the bronze statue of him will be a standing naked youth (Br. 13396) in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens and a marble statue of Apollo Kitharoidos (S 2154) in the Athens Agora Museum attributed.

Euphranor was mentioned by Pliny in his Naturalis historia .

literature

• Olga Palagia: Euphranor . Brill, Leiden 1980, ISBN 90-04-05932-6 .

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