Leochăres
(
Λεωχάρης). A Greek sculptor, of Athens, who (about B.C.
350) was engaged with Scopas in the adornment of the
Mausoleum (q.v.) of Halicarnassus. One of his most famous works was the bronze group
of Ganymede and the Eagle, a work remarkable for its ingenious composition, which boldly
ventures to the verge of what is allowed by the laws of sculpture, and also for its charming
treatment of the youthful form as it soars into the air. It is apparently imitated in a
well-known marble group in the Vatican, half life-size. See Perry,
Greek and Roman
Sculpture, ch. xxxix.
(London, 1882).