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Skopas
Document Type
Reference Entry
Author
Source
Oxford Art Online, 2003, ill.
Subject
Greek
Language
English
Abstract
(fl mid-4th century bc). Greek sculptor and architect ( see fig.). He was probably the son of the Parian Aristandros, who worked on the Spartan dedication for their victory at Aigospotamoi in 405 bc. He was employed as an architect and sculptor at Tegea after 395 bc and as a sculptor on the mausoleum at Halikarnossos (see Halikarnassos, §2) from c. 367 bc to c. 351 bc, at Ephesos after 356 bc and in Thebes before 336 bc. Pliny, Pausanias and others recorded 25 works by Skopas in the Peloponnese, Attica, northern Greece, Ionia and Caria (see J. Overbeck: Die antiken Schriftquellen, Leipzig, 1868/R Hildesheim, 1959, pp. 221–30, nos 1149–89). Several were later taken to Rome as loot. All but one were of marble and included 16 studies of the younger gods (e.g. Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Asklepios, Athena, Dionysos, Hekate, Hermes and Hestia). The rest comprised the ...