Kritios
Kritios was a Greek sculptor.
He was 495-450 BC worked in Athens and replaced along with the Nesiotes of Xerxes I carried away statues of Harmodius and tyrannicide Aristogeiton at Kerameikos in Athens by Antenor by a Erzgruppe.
Replicas in marble of the two statues are among others in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. The group repeatedly on smaller works of art ( coins, vases, etc.) is imitated. Kritios is one of the most important artists of the so-called strict style.
No less famous is the so-called Kritios - boy on the Acropolis in Athens.
- Greek ( Ancient )
- Sculptors of antiquity
- Born in the 6th century BC
- Died in the 5th century BC
- Man