(b Kydonia [now Chania], Crete, 5th century BC). Greek sculptor. He was active mainly in Athens, though his works also stood at Delphi, Ephesos and Hermione in the Argolid. He worked exclusively in bronze, producing statuary for private dedications in sanctuaries. Only his activities between 460 and 440 BC are documented, and his later oeuvre is known almost entirely from meagre references of Pliny the elder (Natural History XXXIV.53 and 74–5), in which Kresilas’ name is recovered by textual emendation, and from his signed statue bases, dated by letter-forms to c. 460–c. 440 BC. A base (c. 250–130 BC) inscribed in letters of the Hellenistic period (323–27 BC), found at Pergammon, served either for a work by Kresilas owned by an Attalid king or for a Hellenistic copy.

• Kresilas
  • Greece, ancient, §IV, 2(iii)(b): High Classical monumental sculpture
  • competitions
    • Ephesos, §I, 1(ii): Greek sculpture
  • copies
    • Pericles
    • Rome, ancient, §IV, 2(vi): Sculpture: Hadrian
  • works
    • Athens, §II, 1(ii)(b): Acropolis: Non-architectural sculpture
    • Greece, ancient, §VIII, 2(i)(d): Bronze statuettes and figurines: Classical
    • Herm