Editing Lysippos (section)

==Biography==

Born at [[Sicyon]] around 390 BC, Lysippos was a worker in [[bronze]] in his youth. He taught himself the art of sculpture, later becoming head of the school of [[Ancient Argos|Argos]] and Sicyon. According to Pliny, he produced more than 1,500 works, all of them in bronze. Commentators noted his grace and elegance, and the ''symmetria,'' or coherent balance, of his figures, which were leaner than the ideal represented by Polykleitos and with proportionately smaller heads, giving them the impression of greater height. He was famous for his attention to the details of eyelids and toenails.

His pupil, [[Chares of Lindos]], constructed the [[Colossus of Rhodes]], one of the [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]. As this statue does not exist today, debate continues as to whether its sections were cast in bronze or hammered of sheet bronze.
[[File:0002MAN-Hermes.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Hermes of Atalante'', a Roman marble copy of a lost bronze attributed to Lysippos ([[National Archaeological Museum of Athens]])]]