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{{Short description|4th century BCE Greek sculptor}}
[[Image:Meleager Skopas BM GR1906.1-17.1.jpg|thumb|upight|Roman marble [[Meleager of Skopas|head of Meleager]], after Scopas, on a restored bust ([[British Museum]]).]]▼
[[File:NAMA Hygie.jpg|thumb|Head of the goddess [[Hygieia]] by Scopas from the temple of [[Athena Alea]] at [[Tegea]] ([[National Archaeological Museum, Athens|National Archaeological Museum of Athens]])]]
'''Scopas''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Σκόπας}}; born in [[Paros]], fl. 4th century BCE) was an [[ancient Greek sculptor]] and architect,<ref>''The New Century Classical Handbook''; Catherine Avery, editor; Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1962, p. 990: "'''Scopas'''...Greek sculptor and architect; born in the island of Paros; fl. 4th century B.C."</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scopas | title=Scopas | Greek sculptor | Britannica }}</ref> most famous for his [[Meleager of Skopas|statue of Meleager]], the copper statue of [[Aphrodite]], and the head of goddess [[Hygieia]], daughter of [[Asclepius]].
==Early life and family==
Scopas was born on the island of [[Paros]]. His father was the sculptor
==Career ==
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Scopas worked with [[Praxiteles]], and he sculpted parts of the [[Mausoleum of Halicarnassus]], especially the [[relief]]s. He led the building of the new temple of [[Athena Alea]] at [[Tegea]]. Similar to [[Lysippus]], Scopas is artistically a successor of the [[Ancient Greece|Classical Greek]] sculptor [[Polykleitos]]. The faces of the heads are almost in [[Square (geometry)|quadrat]]. The deeply sunken eyes and a slightly opened mouth are recognizable characteristics in the figures of Scopas.
Works by Scopas are preserved in the [[British Museum]] (reliefs) in London; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the [[National Archaeological Museum of Athens]]; the celebrated [[Ludovisi Ares]] in the [[Palazzo Altemps]], Rome; a statue of [[Pothos (mythology)|Pothos]] restored as [[Apollo Citharoedus]] in the [[Capitoline Museum]], Rome; and his statue of Meleager, unmentioned in ancient literature but surviving in numerous replicas, perhaps best represented by a torso in the [[Fogg Art Museum]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
==Pothos==
''Pothos'', or ''Desire'', was a celebrated and much imitated statue by Scopas. Roman copies featured the human figure with a variety of props, such as musical instruments and fabrics as depicted here,<ref>Steven Lattimore, "Scopas and the Pothos", ''American Journal of Archaeology'' Vol.91 No.3 (July 1987), pages 411–420 [http://www.jstor.org/pss/505362 journal preview]</ref> in an example that was in the collection of [[Alessandro Albani|Cardinal Alessandro Albani]]▼
▲''Pothos'', or ''Desire'', was a celebrated and much imitated statue by Scopas. Roman copies featured the human figure with a variety of props, such as musical instruments and fabrics as depicted here,<ref>Steven Lattimore, "Scopas and the Pothos", ''American Journal of Archaeology'' Vol.91 No.3 (July 1987), pages 411–420 [
==Literature==▼
==Namesake==
* [[Scopas (crater)]]
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Meleager Pio-Clementino Inv490.jpg|A Roman 1st century AD marble ''[[Meleager of Skopas|Meleager]]'' with [[chlamys]], a free improvisation on Scopas's model, from the Fusconi-Pighini collection ([[Museo Pio-Clementino]], Rome)
File:Archaeological museum, Athens (5615666772).jpg|Hunter stele by Scopas (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)
File:Pothos Apollo Musei Capitolini MC649.jpg|One of many Roman copies of [[Pothos (mythology)|Pothos]] (Desire), a statue by Scopas, restored here as [[Apollo]] Kitharoidos (Apollo, the [[Cithara]]-player)
File:MarbleHeadsScopas.jpg|Two marble heads by Scopas, National Museum Athens
</gallery>
{{Commons category|Scopas}}
▲==Literature==
* Andreas Linfert: ''Von Polyklet zu Lysipp. Polyklets Schule und ihr Verhältnis zu Skopas v. Paros''. Diss. Freiburg i. B. 1965.
* Andrew F. Stewart: ''Skopas of Paros''. Noyes Pr., Park Ridge, N.Y. 1977. {{ISBN
* Andrew Stewart: ''Skopas in Malibu. The head of Achilles from Tegea and other sculptures by Skopas in the J. Paul Getty Museum'' J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Calif. 1982. {{ISBN
* Skopas of Paros and his world, International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades Paroikia, Paros, Greece), Katsōnopoulou, Dora., Stewart, Andrew F.
==References==
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