PRAXITELES

prăksĭtˈəlēz, fl. c.370–c.330 b.c., famous Attic sculptor, probably the son of Cephisodotus. His Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, found in the Heraeum, Olympia, in 1877, is the only example of an undisputed extant original by any of the greatest ancient masters. It was found in the same place where Pausanias had seen it 17 cent. earlier. The workmanship of the sculptor can be judged directly from it—the delicate and perfect modeling, as well as the strength and grace of conception, are characteristic of his figures. His most renowned statues are lost entirely or known only through Roman imitations. Out of some 50 works mentioned as his in ancient writings, the one chosen as finest of all was the Aphrodite of Cnidus. There is a copy in the Vatican. Of the Eros of Thespiae, only the fame remains. Praxiteles made several statues of young satyrs; the one in the Capitoline Museum (Rome) is celebrated in Hawthorne's Marble Faun. Other copies of the sculptor's works are Apollo Sauroctonus (Vatican); Apollino (Florence); and Silenus and Dionysus (Louvre). All of these illustrate his choice of youthful gods and other beings in which joy of life finds expression. Praxiteles' modeling of face and hair and his treatment of the surface of the marble are unsurpassed.

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Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects: World History
PRAXITELES Born: c. 390 B.C.; Athens, Greece...marble statuary is the trademark of Praxiteles. His most famous work, the Aphrodite...little is known of his early life, Praxiteles came from a long line of Greek sculptors...
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Romans and Aliens - Vol. 10
Book by J. P. V. D. Balsdon; University of North Carolina Press, 1979
Subjects: Acculturation, Aliens (Roman Law), Aliens--Rome, Assimilation (Sociology), Citizenship--Rome, Culture Conflict, Rome--Civilization--Foreign Influences
...15ff., 396; Paus. 1, 1, 3; 1, 2, 4; 1, 20, 1 Praxiteles ; 1, 23, 7 Myron, Praxiteles ; 1, 24, 8 Pheidias ; 1, 28, 2 Pheidias . Megara , 1, 43, 5f. Praxiteles, Scopas, Lysippus , Sicyon , 2, 10, 1 Scopas . Argos...
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Ancient Epistolary Fictions: The Letter in Greek Literature
Book by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Epistolary Fiction, Greek--History And Criticism, Epistolary Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Greek Letters--History And Criticism, Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Imaginary Letters--History And Criticism, Letter Writing, Greek--History, Letters In Literature
...documented historicity of Phryne and Praxiteles, just as we felt with the pseudonymous...historical fiction. No one would argue that Praxiteles did not exist, for he was one of the...Alciphron leaves no room for doubt: Praxiteles and Phryne are lovers as well as artist...
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Approach to Greek Art
Book by Charles Seltman; Studio Publications, 1948
Subjects: Art, Greek
...authors there are only two, Paionios and Praxiteles, whose actual contemporary work both...certainly identified. A fair impression of Praxiteles and his work can be formed because the...The older fashion of lavishing on Praxiteles as high a measure of praise as the Romans...
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Art and Literature in Fourth Century Athens
Book by T. B. L. Webster; University of London, Athlone Press, 1956
Subjects: Art And Literature, Art, Greek--History, Greece--Civilization, Greek Literature--History And Criticism
...the theatre was made by the sons of Praxiteles. Theophrastus in his will 1 says that he has paid Praxiteles for a statue of Aristotles son Nicomachus...is to be erected in the Lyceum. This Praxiteles must presumably be a grandson of the...
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"Excellent Offerings": the Lausos Collection in Constantinople
Journal article by Sarah Guberti Bassett; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 82, 2000
Subjects: Art history, Culture, Istanbul Turkey, Lausos, Politics, Religion, Sculpture
...Pheidias from the sanctuary at Olympia and Praxiteles Aphrodite of Knidos among them. As...documenting the literary sources of Praxiteles.3 In an overview of the Byzantine...her hand only her pudenda, a work of Praxiteles of Knidos. Also the Saurian Hera...
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A Tale of Seven Nudes: the Capitoline and Medici Aphrodites, Four Nymphs at Elean Herakleia, and an Aphrodite at Megalopolis*
Journal article by Andrew Stewart; Antichthon, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Locks & keys, Weddings
...location of the original statue remain unknown. Praxiteles Knidian Aphrodite (fig. 3), carved around...sides in its open shrine, She cried: Where did Praxiteles see me naked? Praxiteles did not look on forbidden things, but the iron...
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Two Bronze Herms: Questions of Mass Production in Antiquity
Journal article by Carol C. Mattusch; Art Journal, Vol. 54, 1995
Subjects: Art history, Greek civilization, Sculpture
...include Skopas (or his school) and Praxiteles.(4) One particularly well-known...head was made by "an associate" of Praxiteles.(5) When the freestanding figures...40. For attribution to Skopas or Praxiteles, see L. Lerat, "Trois Petits Bronzes...
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The Discourse of Failure in Seventeenth-century Rome: Prospero Bresciano's Moses
Journal article by Steven F. Ostrow; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 88, 2006
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Fountains, Sculpture
...thought to be the work of Phidias and Praxiteles (Fig. 15). Early in his treatise...he wrote, was a rule adhered to by "Praxiteles and Phidias in their statues on Montecavallo...ancients, such as those by Phidias and Praxiteles located there in Rome.104 And in a...
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Venus De Kitsch: Or, the Passion of the Venus De Milo
Journal article by Matthew Gumpert; Criticism, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Art--Reproduction, Kitsch--Analysis, Museums--Social aspects, Postmodernism--Social aspects, Venus de Milo (Sculpture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...work by the hand, for example, of Praxiteles himself,(26) the statue is, in...far as calling it a "plagiarism" of Praxiteles Knidian Aphrodite (Venus as postmodern...even in the Classical period. Pliny on Praxiteles Knidian Aphrodite: "They say that...
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Aphrodite's Temple at Knidos
Magazine article by Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 46, May 1996
Subjects: Knidos, Turkey--Antiquities, Turkey--Antiquities
...its wine, vinegar and above all for Praxiteles statue of Aphrodite. The statue has...statue made by the Athenian sculptor Praxiteles (active c. 370-300 BC). It is...remains are, from the podium on which Praxiteles Aphrodite, stood there is an ethereal...
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Freedom in Sparta and Athens: The Stark Contrast between Ancient Sparta and Athens Makes Abundantly Clear That Cultural Achievement Occurs Only Where Men Are Free
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 22, May 29, 2006
Subjects: Atheism--Social aspects, Athens, Greece--Cultural policy, Freedom--Social aspects, Greek history--Social aspects, Greeks--Social aspects, Liberty--Social aspects, Sparta, Greece--Cultural policy
...school in architecture contained within itself. In sculpture, Praxiteles reached the pinnacle of his craft, not to be excelled until...Solon and Socrates, of Plato and Euripides, of Pheidias and Praxiteles, of Epicurus and Archimedes; they will be grateful for the...
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Antiquities True & False
Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 24, November 2005
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Forecasts and trends, Art schools--Appreciation, Art--Exhibitions, Art--Forecasts and trends
...the fragmentary Roman copies of Greek originals, one after Praxiteles Aphrodite of Cnidus, the other a Polyclitus-type torso...endless nude bodies that populate the show. The influence of Praxiteles and Polyclitus is often less visible than you--and the...
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The Lying Stones of Wurzburg and Marrakech
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 107, April 1998
Subjects: Beringer, Johann Bartholomew Adam, Fossils, Fraud, Morocco, Paleontology
...warning, but excoriates his rival as an oafish modern caricature of Praxiteles (the preeminent Greek sculptor) out to discredit a great discovery by artificial mimicry: Our Praxiteles has issued, in an arrogant letter, a declaration of war He has...
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Limits of the Literal, Fidelity of the Free
Magazine article by Brooks Haxton; The Antioch Review, Vol. 58, Summer 2000
Subjects: Poetry--Translations and translating, Translating and interpreting--Methods, Translation (Languages)--Methods, Translators (Persons)--Methods
...There were two world-famous local statues of Aphrodite by Praxiteles, the greatest sculptor of the previous century. One Aphrodite...authors, patrons on Kos rejected the naked Aphrodite when Praxiteles offered it to them, and he gave them the clothed one instead...
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Trophy Worry for Curtis as She Faces Race against Time with Praxiteles
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 28, 2011
...as She Faces Race against Time with Praxiteles. REBECCA CURTIS is facing a race against time to get Praxiteles fit for a possible tilt at the totesport...it was quite a bang on his leg." Praxiteles, who was allotted 9st 6lb in the prestigious...
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Horse Racing: A KEY PLAYER; Silca Can Deliver for Channon RACING PREVIEW
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), November 14, 2007
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
...appears an attractive proposition. Praxiteles is bred to be a Classic-type being...co.uk Maiden Stakes (2.20). Praxiteles had just one start on the turf, finishing...Caiman, 1.50 Art Exhibition, 2.20 Praxiteles, 2.50 Silca Key, 3.20 Hucking...
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Horse Racing: NEWSBOY'S 10 TO FOLLOW; THE START OF THE FLAT SEASON .. DONCASTER TOMORROW
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 21, 2008
...year - but should prove up to the job. PRAXITELES 4bc Sir M Stoute We already have much to thank Praxiteles for - he was the first sculptor to capture...brother to the top-class Islington, Praxiteles has been limited to two racecourse appearances...
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Watch the Saint Go Marching in; RACING PREVIEW
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), May 27, 2010
...Brightons Bet totepool At totesport.com Handicap (4.50). Praxiteles holds obvious claims in the bordeaux-undiscovered. co...MATTHEW: 6.20 El Presidente, 6.50 Predateur, 7.20 Praxiteles, 7.50 Killard Point, 8.20 Bradley, 8.50 Midas Way...
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Gan Eagla Can Bully the Opposition
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 15, 2007
...LINGFIELD: 1.20 Grande Caiman, 1.50 Art Exhibition, 2.20 Praxiteles, 2.50 Silca Key, 3.20 Hucking Hero, 3.50 Dushstorm. LUDLOW...Caislean Na Deirge, 4.10 Flamehairtemptress DOUBLE: Gan Eagla and Praxiteles.
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encyclopedia articles on: Praxiteles  - 10 results

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Praxiteles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PRAXITELES praksit lez, fl. c.370 c.330 b...of Thespiae, only the fame remains. Praxiteles made several statues of young satyrs...which joy of life finds expression. Praxiteles modeling of face and hair and his treatment...
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Cephisodotus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...elder, the master and probably the father or the brother of Praxiteles, is noted for the statue Irene and Plutus Peace and Wealth...copy is in Munich. Cephisodotus, the Younger, a son of Praxiteles, continued the Praxitelean tradition into the early 3d cent...
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Cnidus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...its medical school and other institutions of learning. One of the most famous statues of the ancient world, Aphrodite by Praxiteles, was there. In the waters off Cnidus the Athenians under Conon defeated the Spartans under Pisander in 394 b.c. Cnidus...
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Greek Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...period (400 300 b.c.) there was increased emphasis on the expression of emotion in art. Sculptural works attributed to Praxiteles are characterized by elegance of proportion and graceful beauty. Powerful emotional effects are typical of the sculpture...
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Mausoleum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...quadriga, or four-horse chariot. It was richly decorated with sculpture, including works of Scopas and, quite probably, of Praxiteles . The building itself was demolished for the purpose of reusing the material, but some of the sculpture was recovered (1846...
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