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Bupalus

Bupalus and Athenis, were sons of Archermus[?], and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC.

They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax, whom they were said to have caricatured. Their works consisted almost entirely of draped female figures, Artemis, Fortune, the Graces[?], when the Chian school has been well called a school of Madonnas. Augustus brought many of the works of Bupalus and Athenis to Rome, and placed them on the gable of the temple of Apollo Palatinus.

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.



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