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- Also spelled:
- Kresilas
- Flourished:
- 5th century bce, Athens
- Flourished:
- c.500 BCE - c.401 BCE
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Pericles
Roman marble copy of an original sculpture of Pericles by Greek sculptor Cresilas, c. 420 bce; in the collection of the Vatican Museums, Rome.
Cresilas
Greek sculptor
Also known as: Kresilas
Cresilas (flourished 5th century bce, Athens) was a sculptor whose portrait of the Athenian statesman Pericles generated a type of noble, idealized portraiture. Cresilas was a contemporary of Phidias and one of the sculptors in a competition at Ephesus about 440 bce. His entry, a figure of a wounded Amazon, is ascribed to him from its resemblance in style to his head of Pericles. The figure is known only through copies.
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