A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Cresilla

by Mary Matilda Betham

CRESILLA,

A female sculptor of early Greece, who having, in competition with others masters, to form seven Amazons to ornament the temple of Diana at Ephesus, carried away the third honour, the first being given to Policletus, and the second to Phidias.

Abecedario Pittorico.