Praxiteles

American  

[prak-sit-l-eez] / prækˈsɪt lˌiz /

noun

1. flourished c350 b.c., Greek sculptor.

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Praxiteles British  

/ prækˈsɪtɪˌliːz /

noun

1. 4th-century _bc Greek sculptor: his works include statues of Hermes at Olympia, which survives, and of Aphrodite at Cnidus

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Other Word Forms

• Praxitelean adjective

Example Sentences

Organisers have instead moved the ceremony at the Olympia archaeological museum, where one of Greece's most famous classical sculptures, Hermes and the Infant Dionysus by Praxiteles, is housed.

From Barron's

She made headlines again when, on a visit to the British Museum’s collection of antiquities, she identified a crumbling marble head stashed in its basement as being a remnant of Praxiteles’ lost statue of Aphrodite.

From New York Times

He knows about Praxiteles and Benny Goodman, about Winston Churchill’s speeches and video games.

From The Guardian

Inscribed on its sandstone facade are the names of great artists in the European tradition: Praxiteles, Giotto, Donatello, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens and Gainsborough.

From New York Times

Ph.D. candidates in informatics have worked on a computer program that allows this museum’s visitors to try to reconstruct Praxiteles’ statue of the Resting Satyr, now armless and legless.

From New York Times