Praxiteles
(-394–-329) forntida grekisk skulptör
Praxiteles (394 BC–329 BC) is listed in the catalogue as a sculptor. By year of birth, Praxiteles belongs to the chapter ‘Antiquity: Greece and Rome’ in this site’s history of art.
Praxiteles was born in Athens. Praxiteles worked in Athens.
The best-known works include ‘Aphrodite of Knidos’, ‘Apollo Sauroctonos’, ‘The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer’, and ‘Dionysos statue at Elis’. The catalogue has one work by Praxiteles with a free image. The dated work is from 400 BC. Cleveland Museum of Art holds at least one work by Praxiteles.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Vulca, Timotheos, Nikias, Eutychides, and Kefisodotos den äldre.