Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : a handbook (1875)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York : Hurd and Houghton · leaf 26
Distinguished as a sculptor, andthe instructor of the three great masters, Phidias, Myron, and Poly-cletus. The contradictory statements of the writers who mention thisname, have given rise to much discussion as to when he lived, all ofwhich has resulted in the opinion that there were two sculptors… … Agesander, native of the island of Rhodes. Pliny is the onlywriter who speaks of him, and but one work of his is known, — the Laocoon of the Vatican. In this he was assisted by Polydorus andAthenodorus. Another statue, found at Antium, shows that Atheno-dorus was the son of Agesander. It is thought…
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