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Alcamenes was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens. He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus ...
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Alcamenes (ăl'kəmē`nēz), fl. 5th cent. B.C., Athenian sculptor, said to have been a pupil and rival of Phidias. He worked in gold, ivory, and bronze.
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Athenian classical sculptor, successor to Phidias, whose student he may have been. Delicacy and finish characterize his works such as Aphrodite of the Gardens and Hephaestus.

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Alcamenes (fl. late 5th century bc), Greek sculptor, who was a pupil of the Athenian sculptor Phidias and subsequently became his artistic rival. Alcamenes was best known for the chryselephantine (gold and ivory) cult statues of Dionysus, Ares, and Hephaestus that he created for their Athenian shrines. These statues have been lost, but two surviving works in marble—Procne and Itys and Athena of the Gardens—in the Athens National Archaeological Museum, attest to his great skill.