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Bupalus (Βούπαλος) and Athenis, were sons of Archermus, and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC.

Bupalus and Athenis

Bupalus and Athenis. Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553

They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax, whom they were said to have caricatured. Bupalus encountered the animosity of the poet the cause of which is said to have been the refusal of Bupalus to give his daughter in marriage to Hipponax, while others inform us that it was owing to a statue made in derision of the poet by Bupalus.

Their works consisted almost entirely of draped female figures, Artemis, Fortune, the Graces, when the Chian school has been well called a school of Madonnas. Augustus brought many of the works of Bupalus and Athenis to Rome, and placed them on the gable of the temple of Apollo Palatinus.

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This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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