Antigonus (sculptor)
Antigonus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίγονος) was a sculptor of ancient Greece, and an eminent writer upon his art, was one of the artists who represented the battles of Attalus I and Eumenes against the Gauls.[1] He lived, therefore, about 239 BCE, when Attalus I, king of Pergamus, conquered the Gauls. According to Pliny, Antigonus sculpted statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, and a "Perixyomenos" – probably a sculpture of a man scraping himself.[2] He may have been the same Antigonus who wrote on the art of painting and was mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius.[3]
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- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.19.24
- ^ Pliny, Natural History, 34.19.26
- ^ William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Antigonus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 189.
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