Kresilas

Kresilas ( Κρησίλας ancient Greek ) was a Greek Bronzebildner of Cydonia. He worked around 450-420 BC in Delphi, Hermione and Athens.

He was born in Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian War worked. He made, among others, a statue of Pericles with the Corinthian helmet on his head as an outward sign of his function of a strategist, what seem to return the portrait busts are still preserved here and there, also a dying wounded and in competition with Pheidias and Polykleitos a wounded Amazon for Ephesus. Probably the design of the latter is preserved in the multiple -occurring repeats of a wounded Amazon. One example is called by Pliny the Elder testified wounded Amazone ( volnarata ) from the Vatican Museums in Rome (type Sosikles ).

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