Peisias (sculptor)
Peisias ( ancient Greek Πεισίας ) was a Greek sculptor who at an unknown time, possibly in the 4th century BC. Was active in Athens .
He is only known from the report of Pausanias , according to which there was a statue of Apollo of Peisias in the Buleuterion on the Agora of Athens .
literature
- Adolf Lippold : Peisias 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity (RE). Volume XIX, 1, Stuttgart 1937, column 148.
- Ute W. Gottschall: Peisias. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 201.
- The new Overbeck. The ancient written sources on the fine arts of the Greeks . De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-018233-0 , vol. 3, p. 547 No. 2411.
Remarks
- ^ Pausanias 1, 3, 5 .
- ↑ Gottschall wrongly assigns the older Xoanon of Zeus Bulaios also mentioned in Pausanias in the Buleuterion to Peisias.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peisias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Πεισίας |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 4th century BC Chr. |