Lysippos

Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BCE, famed for naturalistic bronze statues and portraits of Alexander the Great. His elongated proportions helped define the Late Classical style.

Ancient Greek sculpture: Sculpture produced in the Greek world from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period. Lysippos worked within this tradition while reshaping its Classical ideals.
Apoxyomenos: A statue type depicting an athlete scraping oil and dust from his skin with a strigil. This celebrated Lysippan type places an everyday athletic action in a complex, outward-reaching pose.
Apelles: A celebrated ancient Greek painter, especially associated with portraits of Alexander the Great. Ancient tradition pairs Lysippos and Apelles as Alexander's leading sculptor and painter.
Lysippan canon: A system of bodily proportions attributed to Lysippos, characterized in ancient writing by slenderer figures and smaller heads. This proportional approach distinguished his figures from earlier Classical ideals.
Hellenistic sculpture: Sculpture produced across the Greek world from the death of Alexander in 323 BCE to the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE. Lysippos's late Classical innovations helped prepare the expressive, varied art of this period.
Bronze sculpture: Sculpture made by casting or working bronze into three-dimensional forms. Bronze enabled the complex poses and naturalistic details associated with Lysippos.
Farnese Hercules: A monumental Roman marble statue of Hercules resting on his club, after a Greek original attributed to Lysippos. It preserves a powerful example of the sculptor's monumental, naturalistic treatment of the body.
Pliny the Elder: A Roman author whose Natural History preserves information about art and artists of antiquity. His accounts transmit key claims about Lysippos's works and artistic innovations.
Foreshortening: A technique that represents a form as shorter than its actual length to suggest depth. Lysippos's projecting limbs make the statues engage viewers across multiple angles.
Hellenistic portraiture: Portrait sculpture of the Hellenistic period, often marked by individualized features and psychological expression. Lysippos's portraits of Alexander helped establish influential conventions for ruler imagery.

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