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	LEOCHARES - LoveToKnow Article on LEOCHARES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pliny (N.H. 79) writes: "Leochares made a group of an eagle aware whom it is carrying off in Ganymede and to whom it is bearing him; holding the boy delicately in its claws, with his garment between." (For engraving see GREEK ART, Plate I. fig.
		The close likeness both in head and pose between the Ganymede and the well-known Apollo Belvidere has caused some modern archaeologists to assign the latter also to Leochares.
		With somewhat more confidence we may regard the fine statue of Alexander the Great at Munich as a copy of his gold and ivory portrait at Olympia.
	72.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEOCHARES.htm (1205 words)

	Text - Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For their works of art are judged to possess merits renowned for all time and unfading for eternity, and from their deliberations were produced works of high distinction.
		The rivals and contemporaries of Skopas were Bryaxis, Timotheos, and Leochares, whom we must discuss at the same time since they too did carvings for the Mausoleum.
		They did not stop working, however, until it was complete, having already decided that it would be a monument both to their own glory and to that of their art; and even today their hands rival one another.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~fvankeur/classical/ancient/text6.html (374 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leochares (European Art To 1599, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Leochares was associated in the decoration of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
		He is known to have made portraits, including a gold and ivory group of Philip, Alexander, and others, for Olympia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Leochare.html (188 words)

	Perseus Lookup Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The rape of Ganymede was represented in a group by the sculptor Leochares (q.v.).
		notes that Leochares of Athens made a gold and ivory portrait of Alexander (as well as similar portraits of his family members--Philip, Amyntas, Olympias, and Eurydike) for the Philippeion at Olympia.
		As Leochares was an Athenian sculptor, who was active at Athens, there is a possibility that he would have been commissioned for a similar group of portraits on the Akropolis, of which this may be one.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vor?target=en,1&collection=Any&lookup=Leochares&formentry=1&template=&searchText=&alts=1&extern=1&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0002;2394;65535&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062;1576;13130675&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0039;923;817026&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0040;1139;1928164&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004;4048;5806160&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0048;918;124462&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0041;924;4501079&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0042;919;331721&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043;965;4817651&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0054;2031;2570557&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006;5253;9153903&group=work&.cgifields=alts&.cgifields=group&.cgifields=extern&.cgifields=type (237 words)

	Text - Mausolus and Artemisia or Mausolus' Ancestors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The rivals and contemporaries of Scopas were Bryaxis, Timotheus, and Leochares, whom we must discuss together because they all worked on the carvings for the Mausoleum.
		This was the tomb built by Artemisia for her husband Mausolus, the satrap of Caria, who died in the 2nd year of the 107th Olympiad [351; he actually died in 353].
		However, they refused to stop working until it was complete, since they had decided that it would be a monument both to their own glory and to that of their art, and even today their rivalry persists.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~fvankeur/classical/ancient/text40.html (256 words)

	Greek and Roman Busts
		Apollo Busts: There are 10 different versions of the bust of Apollo, the god of the, the god of archery, and the god of agriculture and animals.
		The most famous bust of Apollo was sculpted the Athenian sculptor Leochares in the 4th century.
		She was commonly worshipped in groves and forests, and her connection with human fertility probably developed from her role as mother and protectress.
	www.statue.com /greek-and-roman-busts.html (409 words)

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		The statue is a marble copy from the Roman period of a Classical or Hellenistic Greek bronze.
		Leochares has been proposed as the sculptor of the lost original.
		In 1503 the newly-elected Pope, Julius II della Rovere, placed it in the internal courtyard of the Belvedere Palace.
	genedorr.com /patches/Apollo/Ap17.html (845 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Leochares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leochares is explicitly described as an Athenian only in the inscription on the base of a lost imperial copy of his famous Ganymede (see below) from Rome (Florence, Uffizi; Inscr.
		According to Pliny (Natural History XXXIV.1), Leochares flourished in the 102nd Olympiad (372/1–368/7 BC), a date that seems too early given that he apparently collaborated with Lysippos on the lost bronze group of Alexander’s Lion-hunt, a dedication by the general Krateros, who rescued the king during this event, erected at Delphi c.
		In fact, Leochares’ career seems to have spanned the second half of the 4th century BC.
	www.artnet.com /library/05/0503/T050364.asp (226 words)

	Classical Period - Culture
		Both Timotheus and Scopas took part in the embellishment of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, as did Leochares (from Athens) and Bryaxis (either from Athens or Caria).
		One of Leochares' most famous works was the bronze group of Zeus as Eagle with Ganymede.
		Leochares also sculpted no less than five gold-and-ivory statues for the Philippeum at Olympia; the Versailles Artemis, the Belvedere Apollo; and, at Delphi, the contest (syntagma) of Alexander and Crateros.
	www.fhw.gr /chronos/05/en/culture/1224sculp_late.html (555 words)

	In the Suit Against Dicaeogenes and Leochares by Isaeus. Greece (432 B.C.-324 B.C.). Vol. I. Bryan, William Jennings, ...
		In the Suit Against Dicaeogenes and Leochares by Isaeus.
		1 have heard the testimony of these witnesses, and I am persuaded that even Leochares himself will not venture to assert that they are perjured; but he will have recourse perhaps to his defense, that Dicæogenes has fully performed his agreement, and that his own office of surety is completely satisfied.
		This is the ground of our action, and this we have sworn to be true.
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	World Wonders
		The monument was the tomb of Mausolus, the tyrant of Caria in southwestern Asia Minor, and was built between about 353 and 351 BC by Mausolus' sister and widow, Artemisia.
		The architect was Pythius (or Pytheos), and the sculptures that adorned the building were the work of four leading Greek artists: Scopas, Bryaxis, Leochares, and Timotheus.
		According to the description of the Roman author Pliny the Elder (AD 23—79), the monument was almost square, with a total periphery of 411 feet (125 m).
	www.irinasworld.com /worldwonders4.html (1546 words)

	Mausoleum of Halicarnassus - the full story
		Vitruvius records that the architect responsible for the Mausoleum was Pytheos, the designer of the Athena temple at Priene and that the reliefs which the memorial was embellished were the works of of the greatest sculptors of the time such as: Bryaxis, Leochares, Scopas, and Timotheus, each was responsible for one side of the mausoleum.
		All four sides were adorned with sculptured friezes by some of the first-rate sculptors of the day, Leochares, Bryaxis, Seopas, and Timotheus, who each took one side.
		Other famous sculptors such as Bryaxis, Leochares and Timotheus joined him as well as hundreds of other craftsmen.
	www.bodrumpages.com /English/mausoleum.html (9230 words)

	LEOBSCHUTZ (Bohemian Lubczyce) - Online Information article about LEOBSCHUTZ (Bohemian Lubczyce)
		Pliny's description of a group by Leochares that we are justified in considering it a copy of that group, especially as the Vatican statue shows all the characteristics of See also:
		Pliny (N.H. 79) writes: "Leochares made a group of an eagle aware whom it is carrying off in Ganymede and to whom it is bearing him; holding the boy delicately in its claws, with his garment between." (For See also:
		modern archaeologists to assign the latter also to Leochares.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LAP_LEO/LEOBSCHUTZ_Bohemian_Lubczyce_.html (552 words)

	Late Classical Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		79) writes: "Leochares made an Eagle carrying off Ganymede in which the bird is aware of what his burden is and for whom he is carrying it, and is careful not to let his claws hurt the boy even through his clothes."
		Ovid (Metamorphoses) proclaims it was Zeus himself, not a messenger: "The king of the gods once burned with love for Phrygian Ganymede, and something was found which Jove would rather be than what he was.
		Ganymede and Eagle--lost bronze work by Leochares, created c.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/griggs/208/18/18.html (1329 words)

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		In some ways it was a very different wonder than so many of the religious structures on the list.
		This was a tomb dedicated to one man and the decorative sculptures by Bryaxis, Leochares, Scopas, and Timotheus, were of people and animals rather than Greek gods.
		All four sides had continuing friezes depicting the mythical battle of the Amazons which was supposed to have been won by the King's ancestors.
	www.delta7studios.com /tomb.htm (567 words)

	Bryaxis
		He worked on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus which was commissioned by Queen Artemisia in memory of her brother and husband, Mausolus.
		The greatest sculptors of their time, Bryaxis, Leochares, Scopas, and Timotheus were each responsible for one side of the mausoleum.
		The tomb was completed 3 years after the death of Mausolus and one year after the death of Artemisia.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Bryaxis.html (93 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Sthennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was a contemporary of Lysippos as well as Leochares, and continued to work during the reign of Lysimachos (287–281 BC).
		Gr./1, VII, 279); a group of statues representing the family of Pandaites on the Acropolis of Athens, sculpted with Leochares (Inscr.
		Gr./2, II, 3829); two equestrian statues of noblemen of Elis set up in Olympia (Pausanias: Guide to Greece VI.xvi.8); and a statue dedicated by Sthennis, the base of which was discovered in the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens (Inscr.
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0814/T081402.asp (281 words)

	Praxiteles and Greek Portraiture in the 4th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As is well known, Pausanias (5.20.9-10; 5.17.4) reported that the base held a dynastic portrait group of Philip and his family made by the Athenian sculptor Leochares.
		Naturally, this discovery effects the manner in which the portrait group was received by its fourth century audience since the precious materials supposedly used by Leochares are commonly seen as the key piece of evidence for the sculptor’s heroization/deification of Philip and his family.
		Moreover, the fragility of the alleged chryselephantine group no longer stands in the way of the possibility that its statues were directly copied in the Roman period.
	www.ascsa.edu.gr /conferences/Dit.htm (7064 words)

	Athenian Political Art from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE: Images of Historical Individuals
		There was also said to have been a painted portrait in the Pompeion at Athens (Ps.-Plut.
		Of these portraits only the one attributed to Leochares may be certainly ascribed to Isocrates’ lifetime.
		Christodoros mentions a bronze statue that may have been either an original or a Roman copy, in the Zeuxippos at Constantinople (Ecphr.
	www.stoa.org /projects/demos/article_portraits?page=8&greekEncoding=UnicodeC (397 words)

	Mausoleum of Halicarnassus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The monument was the tomb of Mausolus, the tyrant of Caria in southwestern Asia Minor, and was built between about 353 and 351
		The architect was Pythius (or Pytheos), and the sculptures that adorned the building were the work of four leading Greek artists: Scopas, Bryaxis, Leochares, and...
		350 BC Leochares worked with Scopas on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038890 (923 words)

	Wikinfo \| Mausolus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is best known from the tomb erected for him by his sister and widow Artemisia.
		The architects Satyrus and Pythis, and the sculptors Scopas, Leochares, Bryaxis and Timotheus, finished the work after her death.
		The term Mausoleum has come to be used generically for any grand tomb.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mausolus (278 words)

	Norwich Free Academy Slater Museum Cast Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Around his neck and arm, he wears a chlamys, a squared cloth worn by Greek men.
		It is speculated that the original work was by Leochares; some sources date the work much later.
		NOTE: The archaeological discovery was made in the late 15
	www.norwichfreeacademy.com /slater_museum/shows/cast/98_apollo_belvedere.html (116 words)

	Vatican Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The museum and collection were enlarged by Clement's successor Pius VI.
		Today, the Museum houses works of Greek and Roman art; Apollo del Belvedere (attributed to Leochares), Laocoon and his Sons by Agesander and the Belvedere Torso are the best known.
		This museum is named after Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti, who founded it in the early 1800s.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Vatican-Museums.htm (364 words)

	Leochares Online
		If it exists you can get it at Amazon, and its prices are unbeatable.
		There can't be a store anywhere in the world that can touch AllPosters' vast database of posters and fine prints.
		All images and text on this Leochares page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/leochares.html (110 words)

	Hellenistic Greek Sculpture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Attributed to Leochares, The Apollo Belvedere (Rome, Vatican Museums)
		Dying Gaul from Monument to Attalos II, Pergamon (Roman marble copy after c240 bronze, Rome, Capitoline Museum)
		Monument to Philopappos on the Areopagus, Athens (114-116 AD) built in honor of C. Julius Antiochus Philopappos
	harpy.uccs.edu /greek/hellsculpt.html (99 words)

	Painting and Photography
		Leochares, Apollo Belvedere 4th Century B.C. (uncovered in late 15th century), Vatican Museum;
		John White, The Marks of the Chief Men of Virginia, 1587-88
		Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
	www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/kjohnso1/pictures/paintings.html (985 words)

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