CRITIUS AND NESIOTES


Meaning of CRITIUS AND NESIOTES in English

or Kritios and Nesiotes

flourished late 5th century BC, Athens, Greece

Greek sculptors.

They executed the first masterpieces of freestanding sculpture of the early Classical period: the bronze figures of the Tyrannicides (477 BC), commissioned to replace those by Antenor , which were looted in the Persian sack of Athens (480 BC). Marble copies survive in the National Archaeology Museum, Naples.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.