Critius and Nesiotes

or Kritios and Nesiotes

(flourished late 5th century BC, Athens, Greece) Greek sculptors. They executed the first masterpieces of freestanding sculpture of the early Classical period: the bronze figures of the Tyrannicides (477 BC), commissioned to replace those by Antenor, which were looted in the Persian sack of Athens (480 BC). Marble copies survive in the National Archaeology Museum, Naples.

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