Cephisodotus the Elder
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- Born
- 500.
- Died
- 400.
- Nationality
- Classical Athens.
- Occupation
- sculptor and artist.
- Known for
- Eirene and Plutus group.
- Languages
- Ancient Greek.
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Cephisodotus the Elder died.
500
Cephisodotus the Elder born.
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- Cephisodotus, the Elder, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
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- 1.Pliny places the elder Cephisodotus in the 102nd Olympiad, i.e. 371-368 BC.
- 2."Praxiteles' father's name is not recorded, "but, given Greek practice of handing down names and crafts in the family, it is likely that if not Praxiteles' father, he was a relation" (Martin Robertson, A Shorter History of Greek Art [Cambridge University Press]) 1981, p. 138).
- 3.Dates as in H.K. Süsserott, Griechische Plastik des 4. Jahrhunderts vor Christus (1938) p 141f; the annual sacrifices to Eirene began in 371, Isocrates informs us
- 4.The Eirene was illustrated by Attic vase-painters on Panathenaic prize amphorae bearing the name of the eponymous archon for 360-359 (Robertson 1981, p. 139).
- 5.Pausanias, I.8.2 (notes the statue at Athens), IX.16.2, "It was a clever idea of these artists to place Wealth in the arms of Fortune, and so to suggest that she is his mother or nurse. Equally clever was the conception of Cephisodotus, who made the image of Peace for the Athenians with Wealth in her arms".
- 6.Cephisodotus. 702.
- 7.The Lansdowne antiquities were dispersed at auction in 1930; the Lansdowne head was in the collection of William Randolph Hearst, donated to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on loan to the J. Paul Getty Museum.
- 8.Sold in 1902 and now at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
- 9.Dorothy Kent Hill, "Apollo by Kephisodotos the Elder" The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 1 (1974:81-84); the two heads are different in scale and cannot be point copies of a single original (p. 81).
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