Chares of Lindos

Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes, who lived from before 305 BC until about 280 BC. He was a pupil of Lysippos. Chares is remembered for constructing the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios, the patron god of Rhodes, built to commemorate Rhodes' victory over the invading Macedonians led by Demetrius I in 305 BC. A colossal head dedicated on the Capitoline Hill in Rome in 57 BC by P. Lentulus Spinther is also attributed to him, citing Pliny. The Colossus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was regarded as his greatest achievement until an earthquake destroyed it in 226 BC, and the work may have been completed by Laches, also of Lindos.