An alleged affair between this artist and his model inspired Saint-Saëns's opera "Phryne."
An alleged affair between this artist and his model inspired Saint-Saëns's opera "Phryne." The Artemis of Antikyra is now lost save through the writings of Pausanias. Excavations at Mantineia have found a figural group of Leto, Apollo, and Artemis attributed to him. The title figure appears with braided hair in his Lycian Apollo, while lizards climb up the tree against which the god leans in his Apollo Sauroctonos.  His most famous works depict a goddess preparing for her bath and a deity cradling the young god of wine. The creator of the Cnidian Aphrodite and Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, this is, FTP, what first artist to sculpt a life-size female nude, the most famous Attic sculptor of the 4th century BC?
An alleged affair between this artist and his model inspired Saint-Saëns's opera "Phryne."
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