Antenor
Antenor was an Athenian sculptor of the Archaic period.
Antenor came from a family of artists from Athens. His father's name was Eumares and was possibly painters, such as Pliny the Elder reported. Maybe his father also worked as a sculptor. Some inscriptions of the Athenian Acropolis can be related to Antenor. Nevertheless, it is not fully established whether andr ... [ os] is on an inscription, rest of the name of a brother. A son was probably Dionysermos. Antenor probably worked in the late Archaic period for both the Alkmaioniden and after their expulsion for the new democratic system.
Antenor created numerous Late Archaic Koren and Kuroi. Particularly well known is the so-called Antenor Kore, the BC 530 /20 - other datings go after the reconstruction of the base inscription assume that the statue around the year 510 BC came to set up - on the Athenian Acropolis was erected in the Temple of Athena and the 480 BC was damaged by the destruction by the Persians. The figure of the base has been disconnected. The statue was found in fragments under the Persian debris like many other statuary art. The base, which was assigned to the statue, not only mentions the sculptor, also the founder Nearchos in a dedicatory inscription. This statue is the only one that can be assigned to certain Antenor, many researchers see it as the only surviving work of the artist. It is located in the Acropolis Museum Athens.
Several works are Antenor, his workshop or his circle attributed, in particular the Koren on the east pediment of the temple of Apollo in Delphi, which was sponsored by the Alkmaioniden and its pediment shows the collection of Apollo in Delphi. It is unclear whether about the Koren plus a share of Antenor is to take to the overall conception of the work. Pierre de La Coste - Messelière and Karl Schefold reported him to the Poros figures gigantomachy the West pediment of the temple. The assignment of the " Theseus Antiope Group" on the east pediment of the temple of Apollo Daphnephoros in Eretria, now in the Museum of Chalkis, is unlikely. The assignment of the so-called siblings stele at the Metropolitan Museum of New York City by Christos Karusos in 1961 was rejected unanimously in research. Nor will accept a write-up of the grave statue of Croesus from Anavyssos in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
After the expulsion of the tyrant Hippias 510 BC statues were erected for the immediately after the attack on Hippias ' brother Hipparchus 514 BC killed assassin, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, at the Agora. This first bronze group of tyrannicide of the sculptor Antenor was taken in 480 BC the Persian king Xerxes in the temporary occupation of Athens to Susa. After the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great did this bring them back to Athens. Kritios and Nesiotes created as a replacement, the group of tyrannicide within strict style. This "Younger tyrannicide group " is passed down through Roman copies. The "Older tyrannicide group " of Antenor, however, is lost, assignments of copies of individual parts of the group are very controversial. Actually, we know from the older group by the Greek travel writer Pausanias.
Out of a possible students Antenor is not known.