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Cresilas

or Kresilas

(flourished 5th century BC, Athens, Greece) Greek sculptor. He was a contemporary of Phidias. His portrait of Pericles (c. 445 BC) generated a type of noble, idealized portraiture. A figure of a wounded Amazon (c. 440 BC) is ascribed to him because of its resemblance to this head. Works attributed to Cresilas are known only in copies of lost bronze originals.

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