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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Myron, Praxiteles, Phidias, Ageladas, Alcamenes, Antenor, Bupalus, Agoracritus, Polykleitos, Lysippos, Callimachus, Olympia Master, Aristocles, Pythagoras, Cephisodotus the Elder, Alcon, Scopas, Phradmon, Timotheus, Kresilas, Acestor, Eunicus, Agasias, son of Dositheus, Kritios, Leochares, Clearchus of Rhegium, Theodorus of Samos, Ptolichus, Alexis, Boethus, Hegias of Athens, Archermus, Aetion, Pyrrhus of Athens, Calamis, Dipoenus and Scyllis, Butades, Paeonius, Onatas, Euphranor, Cephisodotus the Younger, Alypus, Lysus, Bathycles of Magnesia, Polykleitos the Younger, Eutychides, Aleuas, Demetrius of Alopece, Smilis, Herophon, Endoeus, Canachus, Cleon, Polycles, Rhoecus, Silanion, Thrasymedes, Micon, Ctesicles, Glaucias of Aegina, Strongylion, Machatas, Lysistratus, Antiphanes of Argos, Lycius, Sthennis, Entochus. Excerpt: Praxiteles (; Ancient Greek: ) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue. While no indubitably attributable sculpture by Praxiteles is extant, numerous copies of his works have survived; several authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his works; and coins engraved with silhouettes of his various famous statuary types from the period still exist. A supposed relationship between Praxiteles and his beautiful model, the Thespian courtesan Phryne, has inspired speculation and interpretation in works of art ranging from painting (Gerome) to comic opera (Saint-Saens) to shadow puppetry (Donnay). Some writers have maintained that there were two sculptors of the name Praxiteles. One was a contemporary of Pheidias, and the other his more celebrated grandson. Though the repetition of the same name in every other generation is common in Greece, there is ...
