Cephisodotus

Cephisodotus , Gr. Kephisodotos, fl. 4th cent. BC, two Greek sculptors. The elder, the master and probably the father or the brother of Praxiteles, is noted for the statue Irene and Plutus [Peace and Wealth]. The original was erected on the Areopagus at Athens c.372 BC to celebrate the victory of Timotheus over the Spartans. The best copy is in Munich. Cephisodotus, the Younger, a son of Praxiteles, continued the Praxitelean tradition into the early 3d cent. BC

Cephisodotus. Athenian sculptor of the early 4th century bc, probably the father of Praxiteles. His most famous work, the bronze Eirene [Peace] Holding the Infant Plutus [Wealth], which stood in the agora at Athens, is known through Roman copies; the heavy draperies and intimate expressions are features that were to characterize 4th-century sculpture in general and that of Praxiteles in particular. Another sculptor called Cephisodotus was the son of Praxiteles and inherited his workshop. He and his younger brother Timarchus specialized in marble statues of divinities and in portraits, mainly in bronze. Cephisodotus' son Praxiteles was also a sculptor (these two names evidently alternated in the family).