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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a marble Hellenistic sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), perhaps of the 2nd-century BC. Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. H.W. Janson described it as "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture," and it is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies.

Pitocrit of Rhodes Rhodes, 2nd century BC - was an ancient Greek sculptor.
Pitocritus was the son of Timocare of Rhodes, also a sculptor. He is known through numerous signatures on the bases of statues, found mainly in Rhodes and is mentioned by Pliny the Elder. His also the image of the rhodium navarco Agesandro, which stood on the rock relief of the Acropolis of Lindo, with the representation of the stern of a bireme carved in the rock.
He is also credited with the Nike of Samothrace, considered an original sculpture of the school of Rhodes from the 2nd century BC, as a fragment of an artist's signature, found on the place where the statue was found, was integrated with the name of Pythocritus.

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