Kydon (sculptor)
Kydon was reportedly a 5th century BC Greek sculptor . Chr.
Kydon is only mentioned in Pliny , Naturalis historia , where he is named fourth of five participants in the competition for the statues of the Amazons in Ephesus . Since this sculptor, who should have been famous as a participant in this competition, is not mentioned anywhere else in ancient literature, philological and archaeological research of the 19th century recognized that this was an oversight by Pliny. Kydon has wrongly become a proper name from the ethnicon of the sculptor Kresilas mentioned before him , who came from Kydonia .
literature
- Georg Lippold : Kydon. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Sp. 2304.
- 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 .
- Margarete Bieber : Kydon . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 153 .
- Lucia Guerrini: Kydon. In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale . Volume 4: Herm – Mik , Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961 ( treccani.it ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 53: Haec est Polycliti , proxima ab ea Phidiae , tertia Cresilae , quarta Cydonis, quinta Phradmonis .
- ↑ First Otto Jahn : About the Ephesian Amazon statues. In: Reports on the negotiations of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, Philological-Historical Class 2, 1850, pp. 37-38 ( full text ).