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CRESILAS , a Cretan sculptor of Cydonia. He was a See also:

con-temporary of See also:Pheidias, and one of the sculptors who vied in producing statues of See also:amazons at See also:Ephesus (see See also:GREEK See also:ART) about 450 B.C. As his See also:amazon was wounded (volnerata; See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 75), we may safely identify it with the figure, of which several copies are extant, who is carefully removing her See also:blood-stained garment from a See also:wound under the right See also:breast. Another See also:work of Cresilas of which copies survive is the portrait of See also:Pericles, the earliest Greek portrait which has been with certainty identified, and which fully confirms the statement of See also:ancient critics that Cresilas was an artist -who idealized and added See also:nobility to men of See also:noble type. An extant portrait of See also:Anacreon is also derived from Cresilas.

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