Euphranor

Euphranor from the isthmus, sometimes Euphranor of Corinth, active mid-4th century in Corinth and Athens, was a Greek universal artist. He worked as a painter, sculptor and Toreut.

It is believed that he was a pupil of the painter and sculptor Aristides of Thebes I. In sculpture, he is close to his contemporaries Lysippos, with whom he continued, founded by Argive Polyklet - sikyonische school. He tried to reform the proportion specifications adopted by Polykleitos, but had so little success. The torsos of his figures came a little too thin and the head and limbs seem too large. Nevertheless, his sculptural works great popularity. Especially famous were a fugitive Leto with her children Apollo and Artemis on the arms and a statue of Paris, which is sometimes referred to in a bronze statue of Antikythera. In painting he created numerous images for the Stoa Eleutherios of which especially a representation of the battle of Mantinea was famous. Other works were a Theseus and the alternate end to Crazy Odysseus.

Of the still preserved handwritten works, the bronze statue of a standing naked youth it be (Br. 13396 ) in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, and a marble statue of Apollo Kitharoidos (S 2154 ) in the Athenian Agora Museum attributed.

Euphranor was mentioned by Pliny in his Naturalis Historia.