Bryaxis ( grc, Βρύαξις or Βρύασσις; fl. 350 BC) was a
Greek sculptor. He created the sculptures on the north side of the
mausoleum of Maussollos
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus ( grc, Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; tr, Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an ...
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Halicarnassus which was commissioned by the queen
Artemisia II of Caria in memory of her brother and husband, Mausolus. The three other greatest sculptors of their time,
Leochares,
Scopas and
Timotheus, were each one responsible for one side of the
grave. The tomb was completed three years after the death of Mausolus and one year after the death of Artemisia. Some authors allege that Bryaxis created a famous colossal statue of
Serapis in the temple at Alexandria; however, according to
Michaelis
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Athenodoros Cananites expressly pointed out that the Bryaxis connected with the Alexandrian statue was merely a namesake of the famous Bryaxis. The works of Bryaxis include a bronze statue of Seleucus,
king of Syria, five huge statues at Rhodes, and a statue of Apollo at Daphne near
Antioch.
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Year of death missing
4th-century BC Greek sculptors
Hellenistic sculptors
Ancient Greeks in Caria
Ptolemaic court
Serapis
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