Agasias(1)
, son of Dositheus, Ephesian sculptor, c. 100 BCE
Agasias(1)
, son of Dositheus, Ephesian sculptor, c. 100 BCE
- Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster
- , and Andrew F. Stewart
Extract
Agasias (1) Ephesiansculptor, son of Dositheus, active c.100 bce. He signed the Borghese Warrior from Anzio, now in the Louvre, a nude figure striding forward to parry an attack from above. Its ‘flayed’ anatomy and attenuated proportions look back to the school of *Lysippus (2).
Subjects
- Greek Material Culture
