{{Short description|Ancient Athenian sculptor (5th cent. BCE)}} [[File:Tiranicidas 04.JPG|thumb|upright|Roman copy of Kritios' ''Tyrannicides'' (Archaeological Museum, Naples).]]

'''Kritios''' ({{langx|grc|Κριτίος}}, {{IPAc-en|k|r|ɪ|ˈ|t|iː|ə|s}}) was an [[Athenian]] sculptor, probably a pupil of [[Antenor]], working in the early 5th century BCE, whose manner is on the cusp of the Late Archaic and the [[Severe style]] of Early Classicism in [[Attica]]. He was the teacher of [[Myron]]. With Nesiotes (Νησιώτης,) Kritios made the replacement of the Tyrannicides ("Tyrant-killers") group<ref>The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), [[Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture)|Harmodius and Aristogeiton]], the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant [[Hipparchus]].</ref> by Antenor, which had been carried off by the Persians in the first stage of the [[Greco-Persian Wars]].<ref name="Brunnsåker1971">{{cite book|author=Sture Brunnsåker|title=The Tyrant-Slayers of Kritios and Nesiotes: a critical study of the sources and restorations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SPEOAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Svenska Institutet i Athen|isbn=978-91-85086-00-9}}</ref> The new group stood in the [[Ancient Agora of Athens|Agora of Athens]] and its composition is known from Roman copies.

With Nesiotes Kritios made other statues, of bronze, dedicated on the [[Acropolis of Athens|Acropolis]], of which only their inscribed bases remain to give testament. The head of a marble statue found on the Acropolis so much resembles the copies of one of the Tyrannicides – Harmodius – that it has been called the ''[[Kritios Boy]]'' (now in the [[Acropolis Museum]]). Its easy naturalism and relaxed ''[[contrapposto]]'' set it apart from the Late Archaic conventional ''[[Kouros|kouroi]]'' that preceded it. It was re-discovered too late (1865) to have had an effect on [[Neoclassical sculpture]], as it would have done if it had been known a century earlier.

==See also== * [[Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture)]]

==References== {{Reflist}} The "Tyrant-killers" (Τυραννοκτόνοι), Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the heroic lovers who slew the tyrant [[Hipparchus (son of Peisistratos)|Hipparchus]]

==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://www.ancient-greece.org/art/acropolis-sculptures.html Acropolis sculptures: The Kritios Boy] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20061208001445/http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/html/epublications/papers/daedalus/chapter2.html R. Ross Holloway, ''The Hand of Daedalus'', ch II "The Fateful Year 480 in the History of Greek Art"] Kritios in context. *[http://daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/WorksofArt/05Greek/4169.html The Calf-Bearer and the Kritian Boy at the dig site on the Acropolis, 1865] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908034715/http://daphne.palomar.edu/mhudelson/WorksofArt/05Greek/4169.html |date=2006-09-08 }}. *{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Critius and Nesiotes|volume=7|page=470}}

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