Flourished 370-330 B.C.E.
Sculptor

Marble Medium. An Athenian sculptor, Praxiteles worked in marble and to a lesser extent in bronze. He was particularly interested in the surface finish of his works and apparently admired best his marble statues that had been painted over by Nicias. He depicted several youthful gods such as Eros for the people of Thespiae and another at Parium, satyrs, nymphs, a languid young Apollo killing a lizard (Sauroktonos) and Dionysus, among others. The bronze Marathon Boy may be traceable to a Praxitelean workshop. The famous marble Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionyus at Olympia, long thought to be one of his works, may postdate Praxiteles, though others think it may be an original. According to Vitruvius, he also worked on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, another of the Seven Wonders, and collaborated with other sculptors on athletic pieces such as chariot monuments.

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