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Dionysios
( fl ?later 2nd century BC). Greek sculptor. He was the son of TIMARCHIDES and a member of a family of Athenian sculptors that included POLYKLES and TIMOKLES. Dionysios signed (together with Timarchides, son of Polykles) a portrait of C. Ofellius Ferus on Delos (c. 100 BC; Delos, Archaeol. Mus.), its Classicizing style recalling works of the 4th century BC associated with Praxiteles. Dionysios’ signature is first in this inscription, and it is believed that the Timarchides with whom he collaborated was Timarchides the younger, probably his nephew, rather than Timarchides the elder, Dionysios’ father. Dionysios also worked at Rome with Polykles (possibly his brother; Pliny (Natural History XXXVI. iv.35) attributed to them the possible cult statue of Jupiter Stator in Metellus Macedonicus’ temple, built c. 146 BC in the Campus Martius. The same two sculptors were also responsible for one or more statues of Juno in the adjacent Temple of Juno Regina (ded. 179 BC), but Pliny’s wording here is open to various readings. These works in Rome were in marble and are assumed to have been Classicizing in style.
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- Dionysios
- Greece, ancient, §VI, 1(iii): Wall and panel painting: Painters and society
- Greece, ancient, §VI, 2(ii)(b): Wall and panel painting: Classical, 4th century BC
- Rome, ancient, §IV, 1(v): Sculpture: Craftsmen and society
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