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Chares of Lindos

fl. c. 300–280 BCE · 3rd century BCE

Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor from Rhodes, a pupil of Lysippus. He designed and built the Colossus of Rhodes, the bronze statue of the sun god Helios, about 33 metres high, which took some twelve years to complete and stood at the harbour of Rhodes from about 280 BCE until an earthquake brought it down around 226 BCE.

Chares of Lindos
Image: gravure sur bois de Sidney Barclay numérisée Google · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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