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EUPHRANOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 894 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUPHRANOR  , of

Corinth (
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middle of the 4th century B.C.), the only Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter . In Pliny we have lists of his
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works; among the paintings, a cavalry
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battle, a
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Theseus, and the feigned madness of Odysseus; among the statues, Paris, Leto with her children Apollo and
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Artemis, Philip and Alexander in chariots . Unfortunately we are unable among existing statues to identify any which are copies from works of Euphranor (but see a series of attributions by Six in Jahrbuch, 1909, 7 loll.) . He appears to have resembled his contemporary
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Lysippus, notably in the attention he paid to symmetry, in his preference for bodily forms slighter than those usual in earlier
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art, and in his love of heroic subjects . He wrote a
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treatise on proportions .

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