Kresilas
Kresilas ( ancient Greek Κρησίλας ) was a Greek bronze sculptor from Kydonia . He was around 450-420 BC. Active in Delphi , Hermione and Athens .
He was active in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian War . Among other things, he made a statue of Pericles with a Corinthian helmet on his head as an outward sign of his function as a strategist , to which the portrait busts still preserved here and there seem to go back, as well as a dying wounded man and, in competition with Pheidias and Polycletus, a wounded Amazon for Ephesus . The motif of the latter is probably preserved in the repeated repetitions of a wounded Amazon. An example is the wounded Amazon (volnarata) from the Vatican Museums in Rome ( Sosikles type ) attested to by Pliny the Elder .
literature
- Margarete Bieber : Kresilas . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 500-502 .
- Pietro Orlandini: Kreslias (Κρησίλας, Cresilas). In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale . Volume 4: Herm – Mik. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961 ( treccani.it ).
- Richard Neudecker : Kresilas. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 .
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Remarks
- ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 34, 75.
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| SURNAME | Kresilas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC Chr. |