71. Praxiteles (active between 375-335 B.C.E.),

Apollo Sauroctonos (the Lizard Slayer),

1st or 2nd century C.E. Roman copy of a

Greek original, Classical style, c. 340 B.C.E. Marble,

height: 149 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

 

 

Praxiteles

(ACTIVE BETWEEN 375-335 B.C.E.)

 

Praxiteles of Athens is considered to be one of the greatest Attic sculptors of the fourth century B.C.E. We gained a considerable amount of knowledge about the sculptor after the discovery of the statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus in 1877. Among the numerous copies of his sculptures that have been acquired, the most admirable is that of Apollo Sauroctone, the lizard slayer, who is depicted as a young boy, leaning against a tree ready to catch a lizard.