Editing Lysippos (section)

== The Victorious Youth ==
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[[File:L'atleta di Fano.jpg|thumb|240px|The Getty ''[[Victorious Youth]]''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Getty Bronze |last=Frel |first=Jiří|author-link=Jiří Frel|publisher=The J Paul Getty Museum |year=1982 |isbn=0-89236-039-9 |location=California |pages=1}}</ref>]]

In 1972, the ''[[Victorious Youth]]'', Getty Bronze, or ''Atleta di Fano'' to Italians, was discovered and at the urging of Paul Getty, bought by the [[Getty Museum]]. The bronze was pulled out of the sea and restored. Because of the amount of corrosion and the thick layer of incrustation that coated the statue when it was found, it can be assumed that it was beneath the water for centuries. This is less than surprising, as most of the classical bronze statues archeologists have found have been fished out of the Mediterranean Sea. It was not uncommon for a shipwreck to occur with something as precious as a sculpture on board. Without any way to find or retrieve them, these pieces were left to sit at the bottom of the ocean for centuries. The damaging corrosion can be removed by cleaning the surfaces mechanically with a scalpel.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |title=The Getty Bronze |last=Frel |first=Jiří |publisher=The J Paul Getty Museum |year=1982 |isbn=0-89236-039-9 |location=California |pages=7–29}}</ref>

The Getty Bronze is believed by some to be Lysippos's work, or at least a copy, because the detail on it is consistent with his style of work and his [[canon of proportions]]. Lysippos's work is described by ancient sources as naturalistic with slender and often lengthened proportions, often with exaggerated facial features.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lysippos: Ancient Greek Sculptor, Biography |url=http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/sculpture/lysippos.htm |website=www.visual-arts-cork.com |access-date=19 November 2015}}</ref> Those depicted in the works of Lysippos had smaller heads than those of his mentor [[Polykleitos]] because he used a one to eight scale for the head and the total height of the body.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hercules |url=https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/hercules#:~:text=The%20influence%20of%20works%20by%20Lysippos | website = louvre.fr |access-date=4 October 2020 | quote=According to Lysippos, the height of the head should be one-eighth the height of the body, and not one-seventh, as [[Polykleitos]] recommended.}}</ref>