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Praxiteles

Also known as: Praxiteles; primary name: Praxiteles
Details: individual; sculptor/medallist; Greek; Male
Other dates: 380 BC-330 BC (fl.)
Biography: Greek sculptor from Athens, one of the most important of the later Classical period. Best known for his Aphrodite at Knidos, executed around 360BC for the people of Cos but rejected by them owing to its nudity. None of his original works survive, unless a case can be made for the Hermes of Olympia, said by Pausanias to be in the back room of the temple of Hera where indeed it was found. The Hermes has particular properties associated with Praxiteles including the sfumato or blurring effect of the surface. Praxiteles is one of the main sculptors (Vitruvius) of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. He is also thought to have been an associate of Plato and to have adopted a philosophical argument for his particular ideas of composition of the human body in art.

24 related objects

bust

Museum number: 1924,1115.1 |
Producer name: BIOG60159 Attributed to:Praxiteles |
Cultures/periods: x14450 Roman |
Production date: 1stC-2ndC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Rome (city)

medal

Museum number: G3,PMAE6.141 |
Producer name: AUTH226334 Attributed to:de Bonis, Niccolo |
Production date: 1590 |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Museum number: M.1422 |
Producer name: AUTH226334 Attributed to:de Bonis, Niccolo |
Production date: 1590 |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Museum number: M.1421 |
Producer name: AUTH226372 Attributed to:de Bonis, Emilio |
Production date: 1588 |
Production place: Made in:Italy

print; album

Title: Roman topography and architecture |
Museum number: 1950,0325.1.41 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaPublished by:Nicolas van Aelst |
Production date: 1589 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Opus Fidiae Opus Praxitelis Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae |
Museum number: 1947,0319.26.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:Antonio Salamanca |
Production date: 1538-1546 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print; drawing book

Title: Signorum Veterum Icones |
Museum number: 1901,1022.2531.52 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan de BisschopIntermediary draughtsman:Cornelis van Poelenburch |
Production date: 1669-1671

print

Museum number: X,3.146 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaPublished by:Nicolas van Aelst |
Production date: 1589

print

Title: Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum |
Museum number: 1972,U.923.86 |
Producer name: BIOG41656 Print made by:François Perrier |
Production date: 1638

print; drawing book

Title: Signorum Veterum Icones |
Museum number: 1901,1022.2531.47 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan de BisschopIntermediary draughtsman:Adriaen Backer |
Production date: 1669-1671

print

Title: Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum |
Museum number: 1972,U.923.88 |
Producer name: BIOG41656 Print made by:François Perrier |
Production date: 1638

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1879,1011.262-280 |
Producer name: Printed by:W ClowesPublished by:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington |
Production date: 1879 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Opus Fidiae Opus Praxitelis Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae |
Museum number: 1856,0712.1036 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:Antonio Salamanca |
Production date: 1538-1546 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Equitum in Quirinali, aversa parte, marmorei colos Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae |
Museum number: 1947,0319.26.124 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:Antoine Lafréry |
Production date: 1550 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani |
Museum number: 1865,0408.266 |
Producer name: BIOG38080 Print made by:Claude Mellan |
Production date: 1631

print

Title: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae |
Museum number: 1947,0319.26.126 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:Giovanni Guerra |
Production date: 1589 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1930,0129.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:William BlakePublished by:Longman |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; drawing book

Title: Signorum Veterum Icones |
Museum number: 1850,0810.699 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan de BisschopIntermediary draughtsman:Adriaen Backer |
Production date: 1672-1689

print; drawing book

Title: Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum |
Museum number: 1850,0810.790 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan de BisschopIntermediary draughtsman:Maarten van Heemskerck |
Production date: 1672-1689

print; drawing book

Title: Signorum Veterum Icones |
Museum number: 1850,0810.704 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan de BisschopIntermediary draughtsman:Cornelis van Poelenburch |
Production date: 1672-1689

print

Title: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae |
Museum number: 1947,0319.26.125 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antonio TempestaPublished by:Nicolas van Aelst |
Production date: 1589 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum |
Museum number: 1972,U.923.46 |
Producer name: BIOG41656 Print made by:François Perrier |
Production date: 1638

statue

Museum number: 1898,0519.2 |
Producer name: BIOG60159 After:Praxiteles |
Cultures/periods: x14452 Roman Period |
Production date: 100 - 160 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Athens

statue

Title: The Aberdeen Head |
Museum number: 1862,0817.1 |
Producer name: BIOG60159 Made by:Praxiteles |
Cultures/periods: HellenisticClassical Greek |
Production date: 325BC-280BC |
Production place: Made in:Greece |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Greece

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