Silanion
Sign in to savethumb|150x150px|Tragic mask in bronze, attributed to Silanion. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus|Museum of Piraeus, [[Athens, Greece.]] thumb|upright|150px|Plato, Roman copy of Silanion's work (Glyptothek|Glyptothek, Munich)
Person
- Born
- 0400-01-01
- Died
- 0360-00-00
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 400 BCE
- Died
- 360 BCE
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Image
- Silanion Tragic Mask.jpg
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thumb|150x150px|Tragic mask in bronze, attributed to Silanion. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus|Museum of Piraeus, [[Athens, Greece.]] thumb|upright|150px|Plato, Roman copy of Silanion's work (Glyptothek|Glyptothek, Munich)
Silanion (, gen. Σιλανίωνος) was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BC. Pliny gives his floruit as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328–325 BCE (Natural History, 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. 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. The best copy of Plato is in the Glyptothek of Munich (illustration).