woodman
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wood·man
/ ˈwoŏdmən/
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n.
(pl. -men) chiefly hist.
a person working in woodland, esp. a forester or woodcutter.
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Fit for a king.(tomb of King Mausolus)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...century A.D., listed the sculptors responsible for the relief figures: Scopas carved the figures on the eastern side; Leochares, the western side; Bryaxis, the northern side; and Timotheus, the southern. The quadriga (four-horse chariot) at...
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Leochares
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Leochares. Greek (probably Athenian) sculptor active in the mid-4th century...evidence, the original of the Apollo Belvedere is sometimes attributed to Leochares, and a seated marble figure of the goddess Demeter (the Demeter of Cnidus...
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Demeter of Cnidus
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...throne; originally, perhaps, a figure of her daughter Persephone stood beside her. It is considered one of the finest Greek sculptures to survive from the 4th century and has been attributed to Leochares . See also Aphrodite of Cnidus .
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Apollo Belvedere
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...which it was once displayed). The statue is a copy from the Roman period of a Classical or Hellenistic Greek bronze, and Leochares has been proposed as the sculptor of the lost original. It was often copied or adapted, for example by Bernini in his Apollo...
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Bryaxis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bryaxis , 4th cent. BC, Greek sculptor. With Scopas, Leochares, and Timotheus, he worked on the sculptures of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (c.350 BC). Among other works attributed to...
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