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  Lysippos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC.
During his life Lysippos was the personal sculptor of Alexander the Great.
Lysippos, along with Skopas and Praxiteles, are considered the three great sculptors of the Classical antiquity era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic era.
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 The Art of the Greeks
Lysippos' ability to express social and political problems through striking sculptural statements in a way that language was unable to do meant that he was soon working for the dynastic propaganda machine of the Macedonians, producing his Alexander with a Lance.
Lysippos' talent and meticulous technique are evident in the fingers that appear to be sheathed in skin so thin that the joints show through.
Lysippos was famous for his references to deafness; damage to the ear and poor hearing is implicit in this work, along with a feeling of tiredness, suggested by the abrupt turn of the boxer's head.
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 Lysippos of Sikyon/Sicyon
Lysippos was born at Sikyon around 390 BC.
A worker in bronze in his youth, he taught himself the art of sculpture, becoming later head of the school of Argos and Sikyon.
For some it is a genuine work of Lysippos.
www.sikyon.com /Sicyon/Lysippos/lysip_egpg0.html   (139 words)

  
 lysippos - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BC.
Lysippos was also the personal sculptor of Alexander the Great.
He produced, according to Pliny the Elder, more than 1500 works, all of them in bronze.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/lysippos   (68 words)

  
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Among Lysippan details enumerated by F. Johnson regarding a statue in the Vatican [9], accepted as a copy after Lysippos, are the hands and the rather long and flat feet very carefully made, the neck rather thick with the larynx marked off by grooves, characteristics that apply to our statuette.
Since Lysippos is credited with major changes in sculpture these surely were in the systems of proportions.
Lysippos who became Alexander the Great's court sculptor, surely very active in the second half of the 4th century, lived to an old age (probably into the first decade of the 3rd).
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 HorsesStMarkVenice
Lysippos was the only sculptor that Alexander the Great would allow to do his portrait.
Lysippos and his many students set a new style, the tall and slim human proportion that became "standard" in classical sculpture.
Anyway, it is the similarity of the ears that Lysippos put on Alexander's horse, Bucephalus (from Vous = ox, and Kephali = head, referring to head width/size and not shape) that leads some art historians to their determination that the four St. Mark horses might, just might, be from the Lysippos forge.
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 ART: Essays-Music-Poetry-Prose
Lysippos gave his figures smaller heads and more slender bodies, giving greater height and elegance to his work, The head became 1\8 of the total height of the figure, where it had been 1\7.
Lysippos had a strong sense of tradition, but he was also an innovator.
Lysippos had a fondness for allegory, symbolism and personification, as shown in his Kairos (opportunity).
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 Lysippos of Sikyon (Socrates)
No other work of Lysippos is a better example to reveal his "cryptic" words, "Other artists make men as they are, I make them as they appear", than this one.
The ugly in characteristics face of Socrates, in the hands of Lysippos, becomes beautiful and humane, projecting fully his personality.
For him, it is of the outmost importance to give in his works the expression of the face, as it is projected from his soul.
www.sikyon.com /Sicyon/Lysippos/lysip_egpg6.html   (192 words)

  
 Lysippos — FactMonster.com
of the Farnese Hercules (National Mus., Naples) of Lysippos stood originally in the Baths of Caracalla and later in the Farnese Palace.
B.C., Greek worker in bronze from Lindus, Rhodes; pupil of Lysippos.
B.C., Greek sculptor from Sicyon; pupil of Lysippos.
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Lysippos' craftsmanship is known today only through several Roman marble copies of his work.
When found, this Lysippos had layer upon layer of encrustation, and was unrecognizable, except for the surety of being an antiquity of some sort.
If Lysippos did sculpt the statue, it is the only one of his 1,500 works thought to have survived.
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 Lysippos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
Naples) of Lysippos stood originally in the Baths of Caracalla and later in the Farnese Palace...
the Roman historian Pliny the Elder attributed to Lysippos (or Lysippus, in Latin) of Sicyon...
Myron, Phidias, Polyclitus, Praxiteles, Lysippos, and Scopas) are among the...
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 Greek Sculpture - Part 4
The fourth century witnessed the decline of state power and the rise of that of the individual; the weakening of supernatural conceptions in religion and a strengthening of naturalistic beliefs; and, finally, a general development in the direction of cosmopolitanism.
The most distinguished sculptors of this century were Skopas, Praxiteles, and Lysippos, whose styles may be taken roughly as representative of the early, middle, and late portions of the century.
His departure from the Polykleitan canon, which he is said to have taken as his guide, is strongly marked; his statue, the Apoxyomenos, or athlete scraping himself, embodied a new scheme of proportions.
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 Thorn Pricks
Among these influential sculptors, Lysippos tends to separate himself from the crowd—not because of the statues he has left behind, but because of the breadth and depth of interest ancient authors had in him.
Despite the fact that Lysippos has been the subject of a recent 500-page museum exhibition catalogue, there isn’t a single piece of surviving sculpture that can be attributed to the artist with certainty.
The sculptor’s defining characteristic was his “subtlety of carving, maintained in even the smallest details.” We are told that Lysippos rendered the hair in greater detail, and that he intentionally made his heads smaller, his bodies slenderer and tauter in order to give his figures the appearance of height.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lysippos
Records exist of several of his works, among which the best known is Tyche or Fortune, personifying the city of Antioch.
He was the sculptor of the Colossus of Rhodes and is said to have founded the Rhodian school of sculpture.
Leochares was associated in the decoration of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
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 Hercules
The three-dimensional piece of art I chose as the subject of this paper is a 17th century German sculpture of the mythological hero-deity, Hercules.
The Farnese Hercules in turn is actually a Roman copy of an even older sculpture attributed to Lysippos, a Greek sculptor who lived during the time of Alexander the Great (and in fact made several portrait busts of the Macedonian king).
All in all, the fine workmanship of this sculpture, the appeal of the material used, and especially the stories by which the figure was inspired (never mind that this was modeled after previous works), make this one piece of art that, provided it were within my price range, I would be proud to own.
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 Amazon.com: Lysippos: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
The Poseidon isthmios by Lysippos (Journal of Hellenic Studies.
Aeschylus, Pindar, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Sophocles, Herodotus, Protagoras, Euripides, Myron, Polykleitos, Lysippos, Phidias, Thucydides, Socrates, Democritus, Hippocrates, Polygnotus, Aristophanes, Zeuxis, Eudoxus, Praxiteles,...
Lysippos, sculptor to the court of Alexander the Great, was probably...
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 The Roman Pool at Hearst Castle
The original bronze statue was created by the Greek sculptor Lysippos in 320 BC.
Because Lysippos' work does not survive, Freter worked from an ancient Roman copy of "The Scraper" found in the Vatican museum in Rome.
Freter faithfully copied the Roman copy but also completes the statue with the addition of the missing stirgil (scraper) and the missing fingers of the outstretched hand.
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 Greek Art: The Apoxyomenos
Lysippus as we have said was a most prolific artist and made more statues than any other sculptor, among them the Man using a Body-scraper which Marcus Agrippa gave to be set up in front of his Warm Baths and of which the emperor Tiberius was remarkably fond.
Lysippos (or Lysippus), Apoxyomenos, Roman marble copy of an original dating from c.
For the Apoxyomenos the ratio head/body size is 1/8 and not 1/7 as the Doryphoros.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/Apoxyomenos.htm   (255 words)

  
 476,2ndSt.Guide
C Lysippos' Agias, athletic victor in pankration (boxing and wrestling), from Daochos Monument, Delphi; copy of bronze statue by Lysippos at Pharsalos, Thessaly, home town of Daochos.
C Lysippos' and Leochares' Lion Hunt, a mosaic from a dining hall, house of Krateros, Pella; possibly a copy of work showing Alexander, lion and Krateros at Delphi in bronze, baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig.
C Lysippos' Granikos Monument, erected at Dion in Macedonia and including Alexander and 25 of his guard (bronze), baroque; Pollitt, Hellenistic, fig.
www.arches.uga.edu /~fvankeur/ARHI4010,2ndStudyGuide.html   (635 words)

  
 ARHI4010/6010 - Study Guide
"The Weary Herakles of Lysippos," American Journal of Archaeology 79, 1975, pp.
C Lysippos’ and Leochares’ Lion Hunt, a mosaic from a dining hall, house of Krateros, Pella; possibly a copy of work showing Alexander, lion and Krateros at Delphi in bronze, baroque
C Lysippos’ Granikos Monument = Alexander's Squadron, bronze baroque monument commemorating battle with persians of 334 B.C. at Granikos River in northwest Turkey; monument was origially at Dion in Macedonia and was moved to Campus Martius, Rome.
www.arches.uga.edu /~fvankeur/classical/hellen/hellen.html   (525 words)

  
 Lexicon of Greek Personal Names - Image Archive
‘Lysippos son of Xenophanes, Philonikos son of Poliarchos, from Thebes’
The name of Philonikos was added after the original burial of Lysippos.
Because Lysippos and Philonikos died while away from their home city of Thebes, their ethnic ‘Theban’ is recorded.
www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk /image_archive/tombs/t3.html   (99 words)

  
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It is the statues of Lysippos which best convey Alexander's physical appearance (and he himself felt it proper that he should be modelled only by Lysippos).
For it was this artist who captured exactly those distinctive features which many of Alex ander's successors and friends later tried to imitate, namely the poise of the neck turned slightly to the left and the melting glance of the eyes.
For others, in their eagerness to imitate the turn of his neck and the expressive, liquid glance of his eyes, failed to preserve his manly and leonine quality.
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Columns and statuary from all parts of the empire were set up on the Spina, of which only three monuments now survive.
Among the statuery konwn to have been erected are the figures of a warrior in combat whith a lion, a dying bull, the Heracles of Lysippos, a wild horse, an eagle catching a snake, the emperors Gratianus, Valentinian and Theodosius and the figures of prizewinning charioteers.
Set on two towers stood four bronze equestrian statuses, the work of Lysippos, which are now in the piazza of St. Mark, Venice.
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The Farnese Hercules (in the Villa Farnese) is a Roman copy of a Greek Sculpture, thought to be the work of Lysippus (I've also seen Lysippos) or one of his followers.
The copy is signed "Glykon" ("the Athenian Glykon,") the name of a Greek scupture studio in Rome at the time -- the third century B.C. -- who had a sculpture studio, so the piece was made in that studio, but the person or people who made the copy in that studio.
The lost original was bronze; the existing statue was unearthed in in 1546 in the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla -- "Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between 212 and 216 CE, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla."
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 AllRefer.com - Lysippos (European Art To 1599, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
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The copy by Glycon of the Farnese Hercules (National Mus., Naples) of Lysippos stood originally in the Baths of Caracalla and later in the Farnese Palace.
Lysippos made numerous statues of Alexander the Great after 340
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 The Borghese Gladiator, after Lysippos (Fl.370-310 BC) circa 100 BC Giclee Print by Agasias of Ephesus at AllPosters.com
The Borghese Gladiator, after Lysippos (Fl.370-310 BC) circa 100 BC Giclee Print by Agasias of Ephesus at AllPosters.com
The Borghese Gladiator, after Lysippos (Fl.370-310 BC) circa 100 BC by Agasias of Ephesus
The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink on archival paper, resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display.
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Many art historians believe that this herm is closely modeled on one of the portraits of Alexander by the great contemporary sculptor, Lysippos.
According to Plutarch, Alexander believed that the statues of Lysippos best conveyed Alexander’s physical appearance and so he decided that he should be sculpted only by Lysippos.
This story encourages us to consider what the function of an ancient portrait was and how ancient thinkers and artists constituted identity and image.
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