Myron
Athenian sculptor, 5th century BC · Artists · Lived 500 BC to 500 BC · aged 0
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Something wrong?An Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC whose bronze originals are all lost, yet whose Discobolus - the athlete frozen mid-twist, about to release - remains one of the most replicated images from the ancient world.
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Myron was born around 485 BC in Eleutherae, a town on the border of Boeotia and Attica, and trained under Ageladas of Argos. Working in Athens during the classical period's peak, he became one of four sculptors - alongside Polykleitos, Pheidias, and Praxiteles - who defined the era's approach to the human form in bronze and stone. None of his original works survive. What remains are Roman copies, marble stand-ins for lost bronzes, the most famous being the Discobolus: the discus thrower caught in coiled motion. He died around 440 BC, his reputation preserved entirely through replicas made centuries after his hand stopped working.
Artists born in the 500s BC 6
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