Cresilas
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Cresilas was a Cretan sculptor of Cydonia. He was a contemporary of Pheidias, and one of the sculptors who vied in producing statues of amazons at Ephesus about 450 BC.
As his amazon was wounded (volnerata; Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 75), we may safely identify it with the figure, of which several copies are extant, who is carefully removing her blood-stained garment from a wound under the right breast.
Another work of Cresilas of which copies survive is the portrait of Pericles (illustration), the earliest Greek portrait which has been with certainty identified, and which fully confirms the statement of ancient critics that Cresilas was an artist who idealized and added nobility to men of noble type. An extant portrait of Anacreon is also derived from a lost original of Cresilas.
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- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.fi:Kresilas