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Scopas – the so-called Greek sculptor novoatticheskoy school, a native of Paros, worked in the first half of IV century. BC Chr. With one of his first, in time, work was resumed in 395 BC, destroyed by fire tegeyskogo temple Athens-Alaei, for which they were executed two pediment groups, depicting "The Hunt for the Caledonian boar" and "The Battle of Achilles with the Phone." In addition to these groups, S. carved a very large number of statues of various deities, of whom more than others have been influenced by: Apollo Kifared brought from Greece by Emperor Augustus in Rome and raised on the Palatine hill (later copy is in the Vatican Museum), carved for Elis "Aphrodite Pandemos", as a woman sitting on a goat; "Hercules Sicyon", "Ares" (later known as the copy of the Ares Ludovisi Villa), "frenzied Bacchante," "Meleager" and "Eros and his companions Gimerosom and Potosí" . None of these works of S. not have reached us in the original, but on the merits of the artist as a sculptor, can be judged from the fragments of the frieze referred to. Mausoleum – tombstone erected over the ashes of Halicarnassus Karinski king Mausolos his wife Artemisia. Execution of sculptural decoration of the mausoleum was entrusted with five sculptor: Pifesu, Skopas, Moharesu, Bryaxis and Timothy. Because, according to Pliny, S. decoration was entrusted to the east side the monument, it was attributed to him has been on this side of the frieze, depicting the battle of Amazons (fragments from 1857 are stored at the British Museum in London). "Battle of the Amazons, S. different boldness of composition and performance, individual episodes submitted to them the scene is simple and vitally, poses of figures, clothed in light and flowing robes as a result of strong ground motion, are consistent with the nature of action, most figures are very serious and bear the stamp of a few sensitive . In general, sensuality and pathetic were, apparently, hallmarks of creativity S., which, together with Praxiteles must be considered the ancestor of the new trend in Greek sculpture. So. For example, known from a copy of the villa Ludovisi statue of Ares, is a deity, not as a stern warrior, endowed with invincible power, but a nice young man, weary and pensive, dreaming of the pleasures of love.