Leochares
Greek·-370–-320
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Leochares was an ancient Greek sculptor active in the 4th century BCE, known primarily as the likely creator of the Apollo Belvedere, one of the most celebrated statues in the history of Western art. He worked in Athens and was commissioned alongside Scopas to decorate the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
The Apollo Belvedere, a Roman marble copy in the Vatican Museums, was long considered the highest ideal of male beauty and heavily influenced Renaissance and Neoclassical artists. Leochares also created chryselephantine (gold and ivory) portraits of the Macedonian royal family for the Philippeion at Olympia, commissioned by Philip II and Alexander the Great.
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About Leochares
Leochares is credited with the original bronze behind the Apollo Belvedere, one of the most copied and admired statues in Western art. The Roman marble copy is a star of the Vatican Museums.
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was a massive tomb for King Mausolus in modern-day Turkey. Leochares was one of four sculptors who decorated it with friezes and freestanding figures.
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