Lysippus
Americannoun
noun
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You can find him in the last chapter, after you’ve combed over Lysippus and Giotto, Donatello and Michelangelo, Ingres and Picasso.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2020
Certainly they are not, as was once supposed, works by Lysippus, the great Greek sculptor of the 4th century B.C.
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The experts agree that the graceful figure is either the only existing original work by the master sculptor Lysippus or, at least, from his school.
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He was eclipsed by his successors, and is chiefly remembered for the advice which he is said to have given to Lysippus to follow nature rather than any master.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
In front of the temple stood a bronze figure of a horse—supposed to be the famous Bucephalus—the work of Lysippus.
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
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