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Lysippos
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Lysippos (; ) 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, 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
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Lysippos, also known as Polycletus, was a male sculptor and architect born in Sicyon in 390 BCE. He worked in the portrait genre and spoke Ancient Greek. His notable works include the Horses of Saint Mark, the Apoxyomenos, and the Victorious Youth. He had one child, Euthycrates, and taught Chares of Lindos and Eutychides.
His works are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Vatican Museums, the Regional Archaeological Museum Antonino Salinas, and the Delphi Archaeological Museum. He died in 300 BCE. He is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and Pauly–Wissowa.
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- Person.name
- Lysippos
- Person.birth_place
- Sicyon, Greece
- Person.death_date
- (aged around 90)
- Person.death_place
- Sicyon, Greece
- Person.occupation
- sculptor
- Person.relatives
- Lysistratus (brother)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sicyon
- Place of birth
- Sicyon
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Genre
- portrait
- Image
- Cupido4b.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lysippos
- Commons Creator page
- Lysippos
- student
- Eutychides
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- date of birth
- 0390-00-00
- date of death
- 0300-00-00
- different from
- Lysippe
- has works in the collection
- Museo Nazionale Romano
- name in native language
- Λύσιππος
- name
- Polycletus
- significant place
- Sicyon
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Works in European collections
15 objects attributed to Lysippos, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Career and legacy
- Canon of Lysippos
- Lysippos and Alexander
- The Victorious Youth
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
Lysippos (; ) 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, 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. The Victorious Youth or Getty bronze, which resurfaced around 1972, has been associated with him.
==Biography==
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