Silanion
[1] Pliny gives his floruit as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328–325 BCE (Natural History, 34.51), and records he had no famous teacher.His idealized portrait head of Plato was commissioned by Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, c. 370 BC.Other "portrait" heads by Silanion evoked mythic and legendary heroes.Silanion wrote a treatise on proportions that is mentioned by Vitruvius (vii, introduction), but has otherwise been lost to the ages.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a Greek sculptor is a stub.
