Kritios


Harmodio and Aristogiton (Tiranicides), Roman copy of the Athenian statue of Kritios and Nesiotes.

Kritios or Critios (Κριτίος in Greek), is a famous classical Athenian sculptor of the V century a. C., probably a pupil of Antenor and who practiced in the Attica workshops in Ancient Greece.

Works Style and influence

He is an artist who worked between the end of the Archaic Period and the final archaic period, considering himself Antenor's pupil and teacher of Mirón and who promoted the concept of the contraposto, an Italian term for the harmonic opposition of the different parts of the body. the human figure, which provides some movement and helps to break the law of frontality.

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