Lysippos was a Greeksculptor of the fourth century BC. Among the works attributed to him are 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 (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 Romanmarble copy in the Vatican Museums). 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. 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.
LYSIPPUS, Greek sculptor, was head of the school of Argos and Sicyon in the time of Philip and Alexander of Macedon.
Lysippus made many statues of Alexander the Great, and so satisfied his patron, no doubt by idealizing him, that he became the court sculptor of the king, from whom and from whose generals he received many commissions.
And when the Agias and the Apoxyomenus are set side by side their differences are so striking that it is difficult to attribute them to the same author, though they may belong to the same school.
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.
The horses of Lysippus which were in the Hippodrome of Constantinople and transported to Venice 1204 by the Crusaders
Lysippus produced 25 horsemen in memory of the companions of Alexander killed in the Battle of Granicus.
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