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Silanion (Greek: Σιλανίων, gen. Σιλανίωνος) was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BC.[1] Pliny gives his floruit as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328–325 BCE (Naturalis Historia, 34.51), and records he had no famous teacher. His idealized portrait head of Plato was commissioned by Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, c. 370 BC.[2] Later copies of it and of an idealized portrait head of Sappho survive. Both are of simple ideal type, the Sappho not strictly a portrait, since Sappho (sixth century BC) lived before the age of portraiture.[3] The best copy of the Plato is in the Glyptothek of Munich (illustration).[4]

Silanion also produced a "portrait" of the poet Corinna. Other "portrait" heads by Silanion evoked mythic and legendary heroes. An Achilles mentioned by Pliny was later adapted to represent Ares,[5] and an equally idealized Theseus is mentioned by Plutarch.

Silanion wrote a treatise on proportions that is mentioned by Vitruvius (vii, introduction), but has otherwise been lost to the ages.

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[de] Silanion

Silanion (altgriechisch Σιλανίων) war ein Bronzebildner des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. aus Athen.

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[fr] Silanion

Silanion (en grec ancien Σιλανίων) est un sculpteur grec du second classicisme, contemporain de Lysippe et spécialisé dans le bronze. Renommé pour ses portraits, il a notamment représenté Platon, la poétesse Sappho et le pugiliste Satyros.

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[it] Silanion

Silanion (IV secolo a.C.; Atene, ... – ...; fl. IV secolo a.C.) è stato uno scultore, bronzista e teorico greco antico attivo, tra il 360 e il 330 a.C. circa, prevalentemente ad Atene e a Olimpia, ma si conservano iscrizioni con il suo nome a Pergamo e a Efeso. Vitruvio lo ricorda come autore di un trattato teorico in cui stabilì un proprio canone proporzionale, rimasto ignoto.

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