# Onatas

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thumb|upright|Statue of Onatas on the facade of the New Hermitage Building in St Petersburg, Russia
'''Onatas''' ({{langx|grc|Ὀνάτας}}) was an [ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greece) [sculptor](/source/sculpture) of the time of the [Persian Wars](/source/Persian_Wars) and an exponent of the flourishing school of [Aegina](/source/Aegina). Many of his works are mentioned by [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)); they included a [Hermes](/source/Hermes) carrying the ram, and a strange image of the Black [Demeter](/source/Demeter) made for the people of [Phigalia](/source/Phigalia); also some elaborate groups in bronze set up at [Olympia](/source/Olympia%2C_Greece) and [Delphi](/source/Delphi).<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Onatas|volume=20|page=105}}</ref>

For [Hiero I, king of Syracuse](/source/Hiero_I_of_Syracuse), Onatas executed a votive chariot in bronze dedicated at Olympia.<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>Olympia. Dedication with a signature of Onatas of Aegina, ca. 490-480 B.C?, SEG 32-412, 1982</ref> In Delphi he was one of the sculptors who executed the [Ex voto of the Tarentines](/source/Ex_voto_of_the_Tarentines).{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

If we compare the descriptions of the works of Onatas given us by Pausanias with the well-known pediments of Aegina at Munich we shall find so close an agreement that we may safely take the pedimental figures as an index of the style of Onatas. They are manly, vigorous, athletic, showing great knowledge of the human form, but somewhat stiff and automaton-like.<ref name="EB1911"/> His artistic style contribute to the formation of the so-called [Severe style](/source/Severe_style).<ref>Dorig, J., 1977, Onatas of Aegina (Monumenta Graeca  et Romana)</ref>

Onatas has also been linked to the Riace warriors group, also attributed to Phidias. The pair were found off the coast  of Reggio Calabria in 1972.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mattusch, C.C.|year=1997|title=The victorious youth|publisher=Getty Publications|page=79|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eG8mAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|isbn=9780892364701}}</ref>

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Category:5th-century BC Greek sculptors
Category:Ancient Aeginetans
Category:Artists of ancient Attica

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