Phradmon

Phradmon (Greek Φράδμων ) was a Greek sculptor from Argos, who was active in the second half of the 5th century BC.

In Pliny it is called next to Phidias, Polykleitos, Kresilas and Kydon among the known sculptors of his time, his main creative period should have in the 90th Olympiad ( 420-417 BC ) located. As part of a contest in Ephesus with the greatest artists of his time around 430 BC he created for the sanctuary of Artemis at Ephesus, the statue of an Amazon. Copies of these statues are obtained only from its competitors Phidias, Polykleitos and Kresilas. A previously the Phradmon attributed copy of an Amazon from the Villa Doria Pamphili is now regarded as remodeling a statue of Polykleitos.

According to Pausanias, Phradmon created two statues of Amertas winner of Elis, the ( 90th Games 420 BC) and in the Pythian Games at Delphi in the rings of the adults was victorious at the Olympic Games in Olympic wrestling boys. From an inscription from Ostia showing that there he created a statue of the Delphic Pythia Charite.

An epigram of Theodoridas reported from a comprehensive twelve bronze cows monumental work of Phradmon, which was erected as a votive offering of the Illyrians during a military victory in front of the Temple of Athena Itonia in Thessaly. If the usual dating of the decisive event applies 356 BC, the work of another sculptor of the same name must have been created.

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