Antenor
Antenor (Antḗnōr; BC) was an Athenian sculptor. He is recorded as the creator of the joint statues of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton funded by the Athenians on the expulsion of Hippias. These statues were carried away to Susa by Xerxes I of Persia during the Greco-Persian Wars.
Antenor
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- Antenor was born on 1 January 600 BC.
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- Classical Athens.
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- sculptor.
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Antenor (Antḗnōr; BC) was an Athenian sculptor. He is recorded as the creator of the joint statues of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton funded by the Athenians on the expulsion of Hippias. These statues were carried away to Susa by Xerxes I of Persia during the Greco-Persian Wars.
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Archaeologists have also established that a basis signed by "Antenor son of Eumares" belonged to a set of female figures in an archaic style which were displayed in the acropolis. The sculptor of the Harmodius and Aristogeiton is usually listed as the son of Euphranor.
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Antenor born at Athens.
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- 1.(XXV, 56).
- 2.EM 6240 = Inscriptiones Græcæ I, 760.
- 3.Ma 3600 = MND 2283. Marianne Hamiaux, Les Sculptures grecques 2, Paris, 1998, 51, 59-60.
- 4.Georges Daux, « Dionysermos, fils d'Anténor, au Louvre », dans Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, XCI 2 (1967), p. 491-493.
- 5.Viviers [2007].
- 6.id=Lucien de Samosate, Lucien de Samosate, 2015, p=475 .
- 7.(I, 8, 5).
- 8.Naples G 103 et G 104.
- 9.Boardman, p. 83.
- 10.José Dörig, Anike Kunst, XII, 41 et suivantes.
- 11.Christa Landwher, Die Antiken Gipsabgüsse aus Baiæ: griechische Bronzestatuen in Abgüssen römischer Zeit, Archäologische Forschungen 14 (1985), Berlin, p. 109-111.
- 12.Sarah B. Pomeroy, Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. Representations and Realities, Oxford University Press, 1997, p.72-73.
- 13.Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) I³ 628.
- 14.Franz Studniczka, « Antenor der Sohn des Eumares und die Geschichte der archaischen Malerei », dans Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 2 (1887), p. 161.
- 15.Principalement : contestation de Humfry Payne et Gerard M. Young, Archaic marble sculpture from the Acropolis, Manchester, 1936 ; mise au point par le marquis Pierre de La Coste-Messelière, Les Corés de l'Acropole, 1940.
- 16.P. de la Coste-messelière, op. cit.
- 17.Inscriptiones Græcæ I 3 , 627.
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- Lucien de Samosate. Éditions Robert Laffont. 2015. 978-2-221-10902-1.
- , p. 83.
- , p. 201-205.
- Didier Viviers, « Anténor, sculpteur engagé ? », communication au colloque « Figures d'artistes dans l'Antiquité grecque : les limites de la monographie, organisé au musée du Louvre, 24 mars 2007.
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