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Kresilas

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Kresilas: see Cresilas Cresilas or Kresilas , fl. c.450 B.C., Greek sculptor, b. Crete. He worked at Athens. His statue of Pericles is the earliest Greek portrait statue that has been identified.
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Cresilas

 or Kresilas

(flourished 5th century BC, Athens, Greece) Greek sculptor. He was a contemporary of Phidias. His portrait of Pericles (c. 445 BC) generated a type of noble, idealized portraiture. A figure of a wounded Amazon (c. 440 BC) is ascribed to him because of its resemblance to this head. Works attributed to Cresilas are known only in copies of lost bronze originals.



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