Scopas

Scopas was born on the island of Paros. His father was the sculptor Aristander of Paros.{{cite web | url=http://paros-vacations.com/en/paros/skopas.html | title=Skopas the Parian | accessdate=May 22, 2014 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522161145/http://paros-vacations.com/en/paros/skopas.html | archivedate=May 22, 2014 }} Skopas left Paros at an early age and travelled throughout the Hellenic world.

File:Meleager Skopas BM GR1906.1-17.1.jpg, after Scopas, on a restored bust (British Museum)]]

Scopas worked with Praxiteles, and he sculpted parts of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, especially the reliefs. He led the building of the new temple of Athena Alea at Tegea. Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is artistically a successor of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos. The faces of the heads are almost in quadrat. The deeply sunken eyes and a slightly opened mouth are recognizable characteristics in the figures of Scopas.

Works by Scopas are preserved in the British Museum (reliefs) in London; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens; the celebrated Ludovisi Ares in the Palazzo Altemps, Rome; a statue of Pothos restored as Apollo Citharoedus in the Capitoline Museum, Rome; and his statue of Meleager, unmentioned in ancient literature but surviving in numerous replicas, perhaps best represented by a torso in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pothos, or Desire, was a celebrated and much imitated statue by Scopas. Roman copies featured the human figure with a variety of props, such as musical instruments and fabrics as depicted here,Steven Lattimore, "Scopas and the Pothos", American Journal of Archaeology Vol.91 No.3 (July 1987), pages 411–420 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/505362 journal preview] in an example that was in the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani.

• Scopas (crater)

File:Meleager Pio-Clementino Inv490.jpg|A Roman 1st-century AD marble Meleager with chlamys, a free improvisation on Scopas's model, from the Fusconi-Pighini collection (Museo Pio-Clementino, Rome)

File:Archaeological museum, Athens (5615666772).jpg|Hunter stele by Scopas (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)

File:Pothos Apollo Musei Capitolini MC649.jpg|One of many Roman copies of Pothos (Desire), a statue by Scopas, restored here as Apollo Kitharoidos (Apollo, the Cithara-player)

File:MarbleHeadsScopas.jpg|Two marble heads by Scopas, National Museum Athens

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• Andreas Linfert: Von Polyklet zu Lysipp. Polyklets Schule und ihr Verhältnis zu Skopas v. Paros. Diss. Freiburg i. B. 1965.
• Andrew F. Stewart: Skopas of Paros. Noyes Pr., Park Ridge, N.Y. 1977. {{ISBN|0-8155-5051-0}}
• Andrew Stewart: Skopas in Malibu. The head of Achilles from Tegea and other sculptures by Skopas in the J. Paul Getty Museum J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Calif. 1982. {{ISBN|0-89236-036-4}}
• Skopas of Paros and his world, International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades Paroikia, Paros, Greece), Katsōnopoulou, Dora., Stewart, Andrew F.

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