Scopas

[3] Skopas left Paros at an early age and travelled throughout the Hellenic world.

Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is artistically a successor of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos.

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.

Roman copies featured the human figure with a variety of props, such as musical instruments and fabrics as depicted here,[4] in an example that was in the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani.