LYSIP'PUS, a celebrated Greek statuary; b. Sieyon, in the Peloponnestis; lived about 324 B.C. He was at first a workman in brass, then applied himself to the art of painting, and afterwards devoted biruself to sculpture. He is said to have been self taught, and excelled in the study of nature rather than in copying the manner of any master. His peculiarity was that of making the head smaller and the body more slender ;Ind easy thaa his predecessors had done. His statues were admired for the beautiful manner of executing the hair. Ins contemporaries appreciated his talents; the different Q.ities were eager to obtain his works; and Alexander, while he conferred on Apelles the ,ole right to paint his form, allowed no one but Lysippus to execute it in bronze. He is- said by Pliny to have produced 1500 works of art. Among the most celebrated was a statue called " Apoxyomenos," representing a man scraping himself iu a bath with a strigil, the removal of which, by order of Tiberius, front the baths of Agrippa to the palace of the emperor so excited the people that he was compelled to replace it. Ile
made may statues of Alexander, representing him at different periods of his life, and in various positions; also, the equestrian statues of 25 Macedonians who fell at the pas sage of the Granicus, which MeteIlus transported to Rome. He executed a fine bronze statue of Cupid, with a bow; several statues of Jupiter, one of which, 60 ft. high, is ttt Tarentum; one of Hercules, which-was removed to Roine; the Sun, drawn in a chariot by four horses; "Opportunity" (Kairos), represented as a youth with wings .on hia ankles on the point of flying from the earth. The sons of Lysippus, Dahippus, Bodes, -and Eutilyerates were his pupils; also, the renowned Chaves, who executed the Colossus at Rhodes.