Editing Lysippos (section)

===Canon of Lysippos===
{{see also|Polykleitos#Canon of Polykleitos}}
Lysippos developed a more [[wikt:gracile|gracile]] style than his predecessor [[Polykleitos]] and this has become known as the '''Canon of Lysippos'''.<ref name=Waldstein>{{cite book| url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_9097300_000/ldpd_9097300_000.pdf | page= 18 | quote=The canon of Polykleitos was heavy and square, his statues were {{lang|la|quadrata signa}}, the canon of Lysippos was more slim, less fleshy | title= Praxiteles and the Hermes with the Dionysos-child from the Heraion in Olympia | author = Charles Waldstein, PhD. | date= 17 December 1879}}</ref> In his {{lang|la|[[Natural History (Pliny)|Historia Naturalis]]}}, [[Pliny the elder]] wrote that Lysippos introduced a new [[Aesthetic canon|canon]] into art: {{lang|la|capita minora faciendo quam antiqui, corpora graciliora siccioraque, per qum proceritas signorum major videretur,}}<ref>{{cite book| title = {{lang|la|Historia Naturalis}} |chapter= XXXIV 65 | author =Pliny the Elder}} cited in Waldstein (1879)</ref>{{efn|'he made the heads of his statues smaller than the ancients, and defined the hair especially, making the bodies more slender and sinewy by which the height of the figure seemed greater'<ref>{{cite book  | title = A manual of ancient sculpture: Egyptian{{ndash}}Assyrian{{ndash}}Greek{{ndash}}Roman | author =George Redford, [[FRCS]]. |url=https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2009-08/redfge0001mananc/redfge0001mananc.pdf |page= 193 | chapter= Lysippos and Macedonian Art}}</ref>}} signifying "a canon of bodily proportions essentially different from that of Polykleitos".<ref>{{cite book| url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61792/61792-h/61792-h.htm |page= 136 |title= Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art |author= Walter Woodburn Hyde |publisher = the Carnegie Institution of Washington |location = Washington | year= 1921}}</ref> Lysippos is credited with having established the '[[Body proportions#Ratios|eight heads high]]' canon of [[body proportions]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/hercules#:~:text=The%20influence%20of%20works%20by%20Lysippos |title =Hercules: The influence of works by Lysippos | quote=In the fourth century BCE, Lysippos drew up a canon of proportions for a more elongated figure that that defined by Polykleitos in the previous century. According to Lysippos, the height of the head should be one-eighth the height of the body, and not one-seventh, as Polykleitos recommended. | publisher = The [[Louvre]] | location = Paris | access-date=4 October 2020}}</ref>