Head of Heracles wearing a kausia; Roman marble copy (135–150 CE) of Greek original (330–310 BC) attributed to Lysippos. Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Born
c. 390 BC
Sicyon, Greece
Died
c. 300 BC (aged around 90)
Sicyon, Greece
Occupation
sculptor
Relatives
Lysistratus (brother)
Lysippos (/laɪˈsɪpɒs/; Greek: Λύσιππος)[1] was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period. Problems confront the study of Lysippos because of the difficulty in identifying his style in the copies which survive. Not only did he have a large workshop and many disciples in his immediate circle,[2] but there is understood to have been a market for replicas of his work, supplied from outside his circle, both in his lifetime and later in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.[3] The Victorious Youth or Getty bronze, which resurfaced around 1972, has been associated with him.
^Latinized Lysippus (/laɪˈsɪpəs/) is less used today, even in English.
^His son Euthyktates worked in his style, according to Pliny, and, in the next generation, Tysikrates produced sculpture scarcely to be distinguished from his. (Natural History xxxiv. 61-67).
^The rediscovered Agias, dedicated by Daochos at Delphi, was a contemporary marble copy of a bronze. The original was at Farsala in Thessaly.
century Rome. Lysippos developed a more gracile style than his predecessor Polykleitos and this has become known as the Canon of Lysippos. In his Historia...
strigil. The most renowned Apoxyomenos in Classical Antiquity was that of Lysippos of Sikyon, the court sculptor of Alexander the Great, made ca 330 BCE....
much older Greek original that was well known, in this case a bronze by Lysippos (or one of his circle) that would have been made in the fourth century...
support the conclusion that Lysippos was the sculptor, but Frel, Mattusch, and ancient literary source Pliny theorize that Lysippos or his student was the...
The sculptor Lysippos (fourth century BCE) developed a more gracile style. In his Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder wrote that Lysippos introduced a...
"Hercules: The influence of works by Lysippos". Paris: The Louvre. Retrieved 4 October 2020. In the fourth century BCE, Lysippos drew up a canon of proportions...
only appear in Greek sculpture with the succeeding Hellenistic school. Lysippos still criticized sculptors who created works from the natural and prided...
it was presaged in his youth. He also draws extensively on the work of Lysippos, Alexander's favourite sculptor, to provide what is probably the fullest...
Λυσίστρατος Σικυώνιος) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, brother of Lysippos. We are told by Pliny the Elder that he followed a strongly realistic line...
statue of Kairos is known in literature, made by the famous Greek sculptor Lysippos. It stood at his home, in the Agora of Hellenistic Sikyon. The following...
his Bow, a Roman copy from the Capitoline Museum of a Greek original by Lysippos; 2nd century AD; marble; height: 123 cm; Capitoline Museum (Rome) The Victory...
BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippos. Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze...
thought to have been modeled. There was also a bronze statue of Eros by Lysippos. The Thespians celebrated the Erotidia (Ancient Greek: Ἐρωτίδεια) meaning...
Talbot, "were a Herakles attributed to the fourth-century B.C. sculptor Lysippos, and monumental figures of Hera, Paris, and Helen." The Nicaean emperor...
Museum Hercules slaying the Hydra Roman copy of 4th century BCE original by Lysippos, Capitoline Museum Hercules Roman 1st century BCE – 1st century CE, Walters...
Hellenistic portraiture was one of the most innovative features of Hellenistic art. Spurred on by an increased interest in realism, Hellenistic sculptors...
a fate was a large bronze statue of Hercules, created by the legendary Lysippos, court sculptor of Alexander the Great. Like so many other considerable...
still-classical manner being purportedly uninfluenced by the style of Lysippos. Schefold argues that the sarcophagus retains a more conservative approach...
and great artists of the time. This included commissioning sculptures by Lysippos, paintings by Apelles and gem engravings by Pyrgoteles. Ancient authors...
been made by Teisikrates, a grandson of Lysippos, around 300BC. Others attribute it to Boidas, a son of Lysippos, relying on a reference to a statue of...
Alexander". 1866 Roman copy of 1st or 2nd century from original bronze by Lysippos. Louvre Museum Roman copy of 117-138 AD of Greek original. Palermo Regional...
been involved with large-scale statues before. His teacher, the sculptor Lysippos, had constructed a 22-metre-high (72-foot) bronze statue of Zeus at Tarentum...
important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc. The Polykletian statues (Discophoros ("discus-bearer") and...
of tying the fillet around his head; besides Polyclitus, his successors Lysippos and Scopas also created figures of this kind. Both Pliny's Natural History...
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