EUPHRANOR
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V09,
Page 894
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
EUPHRANOR
, of See also:Corinth (See also:middle of the 4th See also:century B.C.), the only See also:Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter
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In See also:Pliny we have lists of his See also:works; among the paintings, a See also:cavalry See also:battle, a See also:Theseus, and the feigned madness of See also:Odysseus; among the statues, See also:Paris, Leto with her See also:children See also:Apollo and See also:Artemis, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip and See also:Alexander in chariots
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Unfortunately we are unable among existing statues to identify any which are copies from works of Euphranor (but see a See also:series of attributions by Six in Jahrbuch, 1909, 7 loll.)
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He appears to have resembled his contemporary See also:Lysippus, notably in the See also:attention he paid to symmetry, in his preference for bodily forms slighter than those usual in earlier See also:art, and in his love of heroic subjects
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He wrote a See also:treatise on proportions
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