Scopas (c.395 BC-350 BC) was a an Ancient Greeksculptor and architect, born in the island of Paros. Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC - 390s BC - 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC Years: 400 BC 399 BC 398 BC 397 BC 396 BC - 395 BC - 394 BC 393 BC... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 355 BC 354 BC 353 BC 352 BC 351 BC - 350 BC - 349 BC 348 BC 347... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person licensed in the art of planning, designing and overseeing the construction of buildings, or more generally, the designer of a scheme or plan. ... Paros, or Paro, an island in the Aegean Sea, one of the largest of the group of the Cyclades. ...
Scopas worked with Praxiteles, and sculpted part of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Praxiteles, of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus, the greatest of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC, who has left an imperishable mark on the history of art. ... The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, depicted in this hand-coloured engraving from a series issued in 1572 by Martin Heemskerck (1498-1574), who based his reconstruction on descriptions. ...
Ancient texts attribute to Skopas two marble groups that included Pothos: one with Aphrodite, in Samothrace; 6 and a larger one with Eros and Himeros (personification of desire), in the temple of Aphrodite at Megara.
Greek sculptor and architect of the fourth century B.C., Skopas was born on Paros, and is considered a member of the Attic School.
Skopas of Paros is not to be confused with his later namesake, Skopas the Younger, who was active in Rome in the second century B.C. General References
After Skopas / The Hope Herakles / 2nd or 3rd century A.D. copy after a Greek original of about 370-350 B.C. by Skopas
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