Kanachos
or Canachus
6th century BC
Late 6th century BC. Kanachos also Canachus or
Canachos was born at Sikyon and was the first sculptor among the Greeks
who introduced the making of enormous statues, whose example Polykleitos,
Lysippos, Pheidias and others followed. He worked with bronze and a
combination of gold and ivory. The Parthenos of Pheidias inside the
Parthenon was made in the same style. Kanachos worked also with wood.
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The Apollo, found at Pireaus, is similar to that of Apollo Philesios made by Kanachos. |
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Sikyonian sculptor, brother of Kanachos. Aristokles was the founder of a Sikyonian school in sculpture. From his works we know only one, that of a group of Three Muses, which he made them jointly with his brother Kanachos and the Argive Ageladas, the teacher of Polykleitos and Pheidia. Pausanias tell us, that he was almost equally famous as Kanachos. |
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called Dibutades, was a Sikyonian potter, who according
to Pliny the Elder, invented the modeling figures in clay, from which
sculpture in bronze originated. The story goes that his daughter, being in love with a young boy at Corinth, traced upon the wall of her home, the outline of his shadow reflected on the wall by a lamp, and upon this outline her father modeled the face of the youth in clay and baked the model along with the clay tiles of his trade. This model was preserved in Corinth until Mummios destroyed the town in 146 BC. After this invention, Butades started to ornament the ends of roof tiles with human faces. He also invented a special mixture of red clay. |
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Lysistratos of Sikyon, sculptor and brother of
Lysippos, was the first man who made a preliminary cast by fitting
plaster upon a human face. |
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Kleon of Sikyon, sculptor was active at the beginning
of the 4th century BC. From his many works, we have two of them dated
with certainty, a bronze Aphrodite (388 BC) which stood in the Hereon at
Olympia and at least two of the six figures set up in the ninety-eighth
Olympiad (388 BC), statues which were made from fines imposed after the
bribing (for first time) that occurred at Olympia. |
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Sikyonian sculptor, pupil of Polykleitos. He made the
statue of Biκelοs, who was the first
Sikyonian to win the boy's boxing-match at Olympia. |
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Sikyonian sculptor, father of Daedalos. We don't have
information about his works. From Pliny we learn that he created various
types of statues, athletes, warriors, etc. He worked in
partnership with Kanachos II, in many works. |
Daedalos
flourished 400 - 365 BC
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Sikyonian sculptor, pupil and son of Patroklos. We
know the dates of some of his works with certainty. He made the statue
(396 BC) of Eupolemos of Elis, who won the foot-race for men at Olympia
and the statue of Aristodemos in 388 BC, son of Thrasis, a boxer from
Elis. |
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Sculptor of Sikyon, who was active around 300 BC. |
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"On the right of the temple of Hera is the
statue of a wrestler, Symmachus the son of Aeschylus. He was an Elean by
birth. Beside him is Neolaidas, son of Proxenus, from Pheneus in
Arcadia, who won a victory in the boys boxing-match. Next comes
Archedamus, son of Xenius, another Elean by birth, who like Symmachus
overthrew wrestlers in the contest for boys. |
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"Cratinus of Aegeira in Achaia was the most
handsome man of his time and the most skilful wrestler, and when he won
the wrestling-match for boys the Eleans allowed him to set up a statue
of his trainer as well. The statue was made by Kantharos of
Sikyon, whose father was Alexis, while his teacher was
Eutychides, who was pupil of Lysippos. |
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"The statue of Hippus of Elis, who won the boys' boxing-match, was made by Damokritos of Sikyon, of the school of Attic Critias, being removed from him by four generations of teachers. For Gritias himself taught Ptolichus of Corcyra, Amphion was the pupil of Ptolichus, and taught Pison of Calaureia, who was the teacher of Damokritos." (Pausanias) |
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Sculptor, son of Lysippos. Pliny tell us that he used an austere style, otherwise he imitated his father. He is credited as the creator of a portrait of Trophonios at Lebadeia, as well as several portraits of women and a group of Thespiades. He ought to be one of the eldest sons of Lysippos, because from his known works a portrait of Alexander is included. |
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Sculptor, son of Lysippos. We know nothing about Boidas, except his work of a bronze statue showing a praying boy (Berlin). |
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Sculptor, son of Lysippos. From his works we know two Olympic victor statues and a Perixyomenos. |
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Sculptor and painter, pupil of Eythykrates (the son of Lysippos) or Teisikrates. He wrote books on both subjects. Pliny tell us that he was a prolific sculptor, though he does not mention any work of his. Some bases with this name have been found, one at Oropos, the work place of Teisikrates. |
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