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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▪ Greek sculptor

flourished late 5th century BC, Athens

      Greek sculptors known for their bronze figures of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogiton, copies of the original bronzes executed by Antenor about 510 BC, which were taken by Xerxes I to Susa and subsequently lost. The copies were placed in the agora in Athens; the figure of the tyrannicides has been identified on Roman coins, vases, reliefs, and fragments. One of the finest copies is that in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples; a reconstructed statue of Aristogiton is in the Museo dei Conservatori in Rome.

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