Alexandros of Antioch
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Alexandros of Antioch was an otherwise unknown master of the Hellenistic age who is most well known today for the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos) at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
He is known from an inscription from a now missing plinth to have been the son of Menides who was a citizen of the city of Antiochia on the Maeander. The plinth was originally part of the Venus de Milo but was removed and "lost" due to museum politics and national pride at the Louvre Museum in the 1820s.
The inscription and the style of its lettering cast into doubt the claim that the statue was an original by the master sculptor Praxiteles from Attica.
Alexandros appears to have been a wandering artist who worked on commission. According to inscriptions at the ancient city of Thespiae, near Mount Helicon, in Greece, he was also a winner in contests for composing and singing. The inscriptions date to around 80 BCE.
Alexandros is also thought to have sculpted a statue of Alexander the Great that is also displayed at the Louvre Museum. This statue was discovered at the Greek island of Delos.
His dates of birth and death are unknown.
See also
References
- Gregory Curtis. "Disarmed: the Story of the Venus de Milo". Alfred A Knopf. 2003 ISBN 0-375-41523-8
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