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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALCAMENES

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 518 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALCAMENES , a
Greek
  sculptor of Lemnos and Athens. He was a younger contemporary of
Pheidias
  and noted for the delicacy and finish of his
works
 , among which a
Hephaestus
 
and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous. Pausanias says (v. to. 8) that he was the author of one of the pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia (see
GREEK
  ART), but this seems a
chronological
  and stylistic impossibility. At Pergamum there was discovered in 1903 a copy of the head of the
Hermes
  " Propylaeus " of Alcamenes (Athenische Mittheilungen, 1904, p. 18o). As, however, the deity is represented in an archaistic and conventional
character
 , this copy cannot be relied on as giving us much information as to the usual
style
  of Alcamenes, who was almost certainly a progressive and
original
  artist. It is safer to judge him by the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon, in which he must almost certainly have taken a share under the direction of
Pheidias
 .


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