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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARCHERMUS , a Chian sculptor of the See also:

middle of the 6th See also:century B.C. His See also:father Micciades, and his sons, Bupalus and Athenis, were all sculptors of See also:marble, using doubtless the See also:fine marble of their native See also:land. The school excelled in draped See also:female figures. Archermus is said by a scholiast (on See also:Aristophanes' Birds, v. 573) to have been the first to represent Victory and Love with wings. This statement gives especial See also:interest to a See also:discovery made at See also:Delos of a basis signed by Micciades and Archermus which was connected with a winged female figure in rapid See also:motion (see See also:GREEK See also:ART), a figure naturally at first regarded as the Victory of Archermus. Unfortunately further investigation has discredited the notion that the statue belongs to the basis, which seems rather to have supported a See also:sphinx.

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