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BUPALUS AND ATHENIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUPALUS AND ATHENIS , sons of See also:

Archermus, and members of the celebrated school of See also:sculpture in See also:marble which flourished in See also:Chios in the 6th See also:century B.C. They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax (about 540 B.C.), whom they were said to have caricatured. Their See also:works consisted almost entirely of drapedfemale figures, See also:Artemis, See also:Fortune, the See also:Graces, when& the Chian school has been well called a school of Madonnas. See also:Augustus brought many of the works of Bupalus and Athenis to See also:Rome, and placed them on the gable of the See also:temple of See also:Apollo Palatinus.

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