Antigonus (sculptor)

Antigonus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίγονος) was a sculptor of ancient Greece, and an eminent writer upon his art, was one of the artists who represented the battles of Attalus I and Eumenes against the Gauls.

[1] He lived, therefore, about 239 BCE, when Attalus I, king of Pergamus, conquered the Gauls.

According to Pliny, Antigonus sculpted statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, and a "Perixyomenos" – probably a sculpture of a man scraping himself.

[2] He may have been the same Antigonus who wrote on the art of painting and was mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius.

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