Euphranor

Euphranor de Corinthe (about the middle of 4th front century J.C.), was the only Greek artist to excel in painting and the sculpture at the same time.

According to Pline Old the, there exists a list as of its works: among its paintings, a battle of cavalry, a representation of Thésée and the imagined madness of Ulysses; among its sculptures, Pâris, Leto with his/her son Apollo and Artémis, Philippe and Alexandre on their carriages.

Unfortunately, it is impossible of indentifier among the existing statues those which would copy the work of Euphranor. They would resemble the statues of its contemporary Lysippus, in particular in the concern of symmetry, its preference for body forms more marked than those which one finds usually at the time, and in its predilection for the heroic subjects. He wrote a treaty on the proportions.

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This article takes as a starting point the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication fallen into the public domain

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