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.