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Chares of Lindos

400 BC - 280 BC

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Chares of Lindos (; Greek: Χάρης ὁ Λίνδιος, gen.: Χάρητος; before 305 BC – c.280 BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippos. Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and the patron god of Rhodes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chares of Lindos has received more than 126,212 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Chares of Lindos is the 56th most popular sculptor (down from 46th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from Greece (down from 276th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Greek Sculptor.

Chares of Lindos is most famous for the ancient city of Lindos.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Chares of Lindos ranks 56 out of 189Before him are Vera Mukhina, Tilman Riemenschneider, Isamu Noguchi, Paeonius, Ageladas, and Andreas Schlüter. After him are Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Bernardo Rossellino, Antenor, Katarzyna Kobro, Magdalena Abakanowicz, and Robert Smithson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Chares of Lindos ranks 26Before him are Harpalus, Campaspe, Hegesias of Cyrene, Philip IV of Macedon, Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus, and Dinocrates. After him are Nepherites II, Antipater II of Macedon, Eurydice of Egypt, Apama, Orestes of Macedon, and Arete of Cyrene. Among people deceased in 280 BC, Chares of Lindos ranks 3Before him are Herophilos and Lycophron. After him is Ariarathes II of Cappadocia.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Chares of Lindos ranks 329 out of 936Before him are Ptolemy of Aloros (-450), Vicky Leandros (1949), Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark (1876), Nicos Poulantzas (1936), Archidamus III (-350), and Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (null). After him are Cleombrotus I (-500), Glaucus of Corinth (null), Peucestas (-390), Leon of Sparta (-700), Alexis Tsipras (1974), and Leotychidas (-540).

Among SCULPTORS In Greece

Among sculptors born in Greece, Chares of Lindos ranks 11Before him are Lysippos (-390), Scopas (-395), Leochares (-400), Alcamenes (-500), Paeonius (-500), and Ageladas (-600). After him are Antenor (-590), Kresilas (-480), Agoracritus (-500), Polykleitos the Younger (-400), Cephisodotus the Younger (-400), and Silanion (-400).