Cephisodotus the Elder

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Cephisodotus (flourished about 400 BC - c. 360 BC), father of Praxiteles and grandfather of Cephisodotus the Younger.

A noted work of his was Peace bearing the infant Wealth (see Eirene, Plutus), of which a copy exists at Munich. It is a Madonna-like figure of a somewhat conservative type; the child Wealth is less successful.

Cephisodotus also made, like his son, a figure of Hermes carrying the child Dionysus, unless indeed ancient critics have made two works of one. He made certain statues for the city of Megalopolis, founded around 370 BC.

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