Quick Facts
- Flourished:
- 3rd century bce, Lindos, Rhodes, Greece
- Flourished:
- 300 BCE - 201 BCE
- Rhodes
- ancient Greece
- Notable Works:
- Colossus of Rhodes
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Sidney Barclay: Colossus of Rhodes
Artist's conception of Chares of Lindos's Colossus of Rhodes, constructed c. 294–280 bce; wood engraving by Sidney Barclay, c. 1875.
Chares of Lindos
ancient Greek sculptor
Chares of Lindos (flourished 3rd century bce, Lindos, Rhodes, Greece) was an ancient Greek sculptor who created the Colossus of Rhodes, usually counted among the Seven Wonders of the World. A pupil of the sculptor Lysippus, Chares fashioned for the Rhodians a colossal bronze statue of the sun god Helios, the cost of which was defrayed by selling engines of war left by Demetrius I Poliorcetes after a siege in 305–304 bce. The Colossus was said to be 70 cubits (105 feet; 32 m) in height. The notion that it bestrode the harbour has been discredited. It was destroyed by an earthquake about 225 bce.
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