Silanion

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Vinony's link graph records 13 inbound references to Silanion, and connects out to Greece, Plato and Athens.

It is catalogued under topics including 4th-century BC Greek sculptors, 4th-century BC Greek writers and Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources.

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Wikidata facts

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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Commons category: Silanion
date of birth: 0400-01-01
date of death: 0360-00-00
floruit: 0328-00-00
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Silanion, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silanion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.