Biography Leochares
Leochares (372 PM to Robert Chr. – 328 before Christ Chr.) – Greek sculptor, Athenian, by place of birth who lived and worked in about 372 – 328 years. BC Chr.
He was one of the staff Skopas to decorate the mausoleum of Halicarnassus, according to Pliny. Make the major. way statues of gods and generally reproduced mythological subjects. Thus, mention of the 3 statues of Zeus his work: one was in Athens. Acropolis, the second – in Piraeus, the third was early moved to Rome, stood on the Capitol and enjoyed the veneration of the Romans called Jupiter Tonans.
There were also filled with statues of Apollo L. three, two of which were in Athens, and the third was purchased by one of Dionysius Siracusa.
Witty, but not sufficiently thoroughgoing attempt to coincide with Winter's famous statue of Apollo Belvedere to one of these originals ("Jahrb. D. K. D. Archaeol. Instil." VII, 1892, p. 164, and an objection Overbeck in "Sitzungsber. D. K . Sachs. Ges. d. Wiss. ", 1893, p. 33).
The greatest glory brought LA group Ganymede and kidnaps his eagle, come down to us in a few play, of which the best – in the Vatican. But judging by these reproductions unsustainable plastic task of submitting a flying figure was permitted in this as in all other cases, not satisfactory, although the figure of Ganymede and remarkable beauty. LG has also worked portrait statues.