Roman copy of Eros Stringing the Bow from the Capitoline Museum.

Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. He was successor of the famous sculptor Polykleitos. Among the works attributed to him are the so-called Horses of Saint Mark; Eros Stringing the Bow (various copies exist; the best is in the British Museum); Agias (known from a marble copy found and preserved in Delphi); Weary Hercules (also known as the Farnese Herakles which was originally placed in the Baths of Caracalla, though the surviving marble copy is in the Naples Archeological Museum) and Apoxyomenos or The Scraper (known from a Roman marble copy in the Vatican Museums). Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1800x2730, 3113 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lysippos Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1800x2730, 3113 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lysippos Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Capitoline Museum?? Hum is it about capital cities?? The capital city of Rome is. ... An Italian Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) The 4th century BC started on January 1, 400 BC and ended on December 31, 301 BC. // Overview Events Bust of Alexander the Great in the British Museum. ... An Italian Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). ... Polykleitos (or Polycletus, Polyklitos, Polycleitus, Polyclitus) the Elder was a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC and the early 4th century BC. Next to famous Phidias, Myron and Kresilas he is the most important sculptor of the Classical antiquity. ... The original Horses of Saint Mark The Horses of Lysippos, also called Triumphal Quadriga and Horses of Saint Mark is set a of bronze statues of four horses, originally part of a monument depicting a quadriga by Greek sculptor Lysippos. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Buro Happold and Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... The amphitheatre, seen from above. ... The Farnese Herakles is a massive and muscular statue of Herakles, originally cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting and was made by the bronze sculptor Lysippos. ... Kids bathing in a small metal tub Bathing is the immersion of the body in fluid, usually water, or an aqueous solution, such as the asses milk favored by Cleopatra VII of Egypt. ... Caracalla Caracalla (April 4, 186–April 8, 217) was emperor of the Roman Empire from AD 211–217. ... Line drawing of the Vatican Apoxyomenos, from the Nordisk familjebok. ... The Roman Empire was a phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... Venus de Milo, front. ... Entrance to the museum Staircase of the Vatican Museum The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

He was born at Sikyon around 390 BC. A worker in bronze in his youth, he taught himself the art of sculpture, later becoming head of the school of Argos and Sikyon. He produced, according to Pliny the Elder, more than 1,500 works, all of them in bronze. Sicyon, an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea. ... ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ...

His pupil, Chares of Lindos, constructed the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Since this statue does not exist today, debate continues as to wheather the statue was cast bronze or hammered sheet metal. Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor from Lindos, in the island of Rhodes. ... This drawing of Colossus of Rhodes, which illustrated The Grolier Societys 1911 Book of Knowledge, is probably fanciful, as it is unlikely that the statue stood astride the harbour mouth. ...

During his life Lysippos was the personal sculptor of Alexander the Great. One sculpture of Alexander still exists today at the Louvre Museum in France. Lysippos, along with Skopas and Praxiteles, are considered the three great sculptors of the Classical antiquity era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic era. Alexander the Great (Greek: ,[1] Megas Alexandros; July 356 BC–June 11, 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, king of Macedon (336–323 BC), was one of, if not the most successful military commanders in history. ... The main courtyard of the Louvre. ... Scopas (c. ... Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus, was the greatest of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC, who has left an imperishable mark on the history of art. ... It has been suggested that Greco-Roman be merged into this article or section. ... The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance...