Scopas
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Scopas (Σκόπας) (c.395 BC-350 BC) was a an Ancient Greek sculptor and architect, born in the island of Paros.
Scopas worked with Praxiteles, and sculpted parts of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus especially the reliefs. He leaded the new-building of the Athena-temple at Tegea. Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is in his art a successor of the Classical Greek sculpture Polyclitus.
They are specific characters in the figures of Scopas the faces of the heads almost in quadrat, deeply eyes, and a little bit opened mouth.
Works of Scopas are visitable in the British Museum (reliefs) in London and in the National Museum in Athens.
Literature
- Andreas Linfert: Von Polyklet zu Lysipp. Polyklets Schule und ihr Verhältnis zu Skopas v. Paros. Diss. Freiburg i. B. 1965.
- Andrew F. Stewart: Skopas of Paros. Noyes Pr., Park Ridge, N.Y. 1977. ISBN 0-8155-5051-0
- Andrew Stewart: Skopas in Malibu. The head of Achilles from Tegea and other sculpures by Skopas in the J. Paul Getty Museum J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Calif. 1982. ISBN 0-89236-036-4