Teisicrates

See also

A work of Teisicrates

Teisicrates (fl. 320-300 BC), sculptor from Sicyon. A student of Eutychides who was a student of Lysippus.

A student of Teisicrates was Xenocrates who wrote a book about the Art of Sculpture (toreutike) (an important source for the book of Pliny the Elder about Greek artists and their work).

Works:

  • Demetrios Poliorcetes

Demetrius I of Macedon, drawing based on sculpture from the Villa of the Pisons, Herculaneum. Roman copy of a 306 to 290 BC original. Naples, a work of Teisicrates. Museo Archeologico Nazionale , Source

  • The praying ephebe. A bronze sculpture identified as a work of Teisicrates. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Inv. Sk 2.

  • A sculpture of Peucestes a satrap of Persia who worked for Alexander the Great.


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