Italian sculptor of Greek birth or descent (known also as Pyrgoteles). He adopted the name of a celebrated Greek gem cutter who served Alexander the Great. He was active in Venice, Padua, Verona and possibly Ferrara and is first mentioned in an epigram of 1496 by the humanist Giambattista Guarino, who praised his Venus 'flagillifera' (destroyed). Pomponius Gauricus also praised the same work in De sculptura (1504). //