Praxiteles of Athens (active mid-4th century BC), the most famous of late-Classical sculptors and master of the new ideal of softened beauty in marble. His Cupid in the shrine of Heius at Messana — borrowed for a Roman aedileship by C. Claudius Pulcher — was the centerpiece of Verres's Sicilian plunder (Verr. 2.4.4-7, 60, 126).