(b Isthmia, c. 390 BC; d ?Athens, c. 325 BC). Greek painter and sculptor. An exact contemporary of Praxiteles, he seems to have been state artist at Athens in the mid-4th century BC, perhaps playing a role comparable to that of PHEIDIAS a century earlier. Along with NIKIAS, who trained in his workshop, Euphranor was among the foremost members of the 4th-century BC Attic school of painting and was exceptional also in producing marble and bronze statues as well as marble reliefs. Pupil of the painter Aristeides the elder and teacher not only of the painters Leonidas, Antidotos and Charmantides but also of his own son, the sculptor Sostratos, Euphranor also wrote treatises on his painting (On Colours and On Proportions), which were quoted by ancient writers; none of his own paintings survive. His preoccupation with proportions was criticized, and he was considered not quite on a level with Lysippos and Apelles, since the heads of his figures were allegedly rather large for their bodies.

• Euphranor
  • Greece, ancient, §IV, 2(iii)(c): Late Classical monumental sculpture
  • Pliny: (1) Pliny the elder, §2(iv): Natural History, Book XXXV: Painting
  • attributions
    • Greece, ancient, §IV, 2(iii)(c): Late Classical monumental sculpture
  • pupils
    • Greece, ancient, §VI, 1(ii)(b): Wall and panel painting: Classical-period subject-matter
  • teachers
    • Aristeides
  • works
    • Athens, §II, 2(ii): Agora: Sculpture
    • 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
    • Greece, ancient, §VI, 3(ii): Painting theory and criticism: 4th century BC
    • Greece, ancient, §VI, 3(iii): Painting theory and criticism: 3rd century BC
  • writings
    • Treatise, §III: Sculptural