Praxiteles

Praxiteles, son of the sculptor Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most celebrated Athenian sculptor of the 4th century BCE. His Aphrodite of Knidos was the first life-size statue of a fully nude woman in Greek art, and it drew visitors to Knidos for centuries. He gave gods relaxed, S-curved poses and soft, polished surfaces. No surviving statue is certainly by his hand, and whether the Hermes with the Infant Dionysus at Olympia is an original is still argued over.