Kallon von Aigina


Kallon (also: Kalon; * in Aigina) was a Greek sculptor. He was active at the time of Kanachos from Sikyon in the period from the 70th to the 80th Olympic Games (500 to 460 BC) and is considered a student of the Tektaios and the Angelion.

Kallon created for Amyklai a bronze triangle, between whose feet the figure of Persephone stood, and for the castle at Corinth a wooden statue of the Athene Sthenias. It is a matter of controversy whether the antectic pediment groups of Kallon are descended, but they should correspond to his style.

It should not be with the same name, around 400 v. Are bronze sculptors from Elis, whose main activity was a group anathema in Olympia. Edit source text

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