Silanion

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Bust of Plato , Roman copy of Silanion's work ( Glyptothek (Munich) )

Silanion ( Greek  Σιλανίων ) was a bronze sculptor of the 4th century BC. From Athens .

According to Pliny the Elder , the height of his work falls in the years 328 to 325 BC. Allegedly self-taught, he created statues of Achilles , Theseus and Iocaste as well as three athlete statues of victorious pugilists at the Olympic Games , which were set up in the sacred grove of Olympia .

He was famous for characterizing the people he portrayed, as he allowed the physical and psychological states of those portrayed to flow into his works. Portraits of the poets Sappho and Korinna , the sculptor Apollodorus and the philosopher Plato have come down to us in writing . Silanion is also said to have written a textbook on compositional questions.

Only the statue of Plato, which was erected in the academy but has not been preserved, can be ascribed to him with certainty. Sixteen surviving Roman copies of the head go back to this statue. The best copy is that of the Glyptothek Munich , another main type of copy is in the possession of the Vatican Museums . On the other hand, the identifications of portraits of Sappho and Korinna as well as Apollodorus are controversial.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34,51 .
  2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 82.
  3. ↑ Plutarch , Theseus 4.
  4. ^ Plutarch, moralia 18 c, 643 e.
  5. ↑ Pausanias 6: 4, 5; 6, 14, 4 and 11.
  6. ^ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 81.
  7. ↑ Cicero , Reden gegen Verres 2, 4, 125 f .; Tatian , oratio ad Graecos 34, 10.
  8. ^ Tatian, oratio ad Graecos 34, 16.
  9. ^ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 81.
  10. ↑ Diogenes Laertios 3:25 .
  11. ^ Vitruvius , De architectura libri decem 7, 14.
  12. ↑ For the copy variants of the portrait of Plato see Copy Review: From Roman Copies to Greek Originals .
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SURNAME Silanion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.