Gaios (sculptor from Phrygia)
Gaios ( Greek Γάϊος ) was an ancient sculptor from Phrygia , whose creative time is set around the year 200.
Gaios was active in the area around the Lydian Temenothyrai . It is known from an inscription on a votive stele from Uşak , which was consecrated to Cybele . It is now in the Louvre in Paris . It is a rather clumsy, provincial work, which is nevertheless of religious-historical importance due to the iconographical richness in the representation. The work was evidently related in style and form to the work of a small rural workshop in neighboring Kadoi in Mysia Abbaitis . Gaios may have been from Kadoi.
literature
- Tomas Lochman: Gaios (IV) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , pp. 260-261.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Γάϊος (ancient Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century |