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Praxiteles



Praxiteles (active c.370–330 B.C.), greatest Greek sculptor of his time. Of his major works, which introduced a new delicacy, grace, and sinuosity of line, only the marble statue Hermes with the Infant Dionysus survives. There are Roman copies of his Aphrodite of Cnidus and Apollo Sauroctonus.



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