Greek bronzes . Fig. 30.—Marble Statue of an ylpoxyomenos. Vatican Museum. After Praxiteles a number of years elapsed before the next great sculptor,Lysippos, appeared on the scene. He had been exclusively a sculptorin bronze, and one would expect to find among the many bronzes of our 74 GREEK BRONZES museums not a few specimens directly traceable to his influence, the moreso as he had been productive to an extraordinary degree, and becausehis works were in demand far and wide. But there are difficulties. Takefor instance the statue of a young athlete scraping his arm with a strigil,usually ca
Greek bronzes . Fig. 30.—Marble Statue of an ylpoxyomenos. Vatican Museum. After Praxiteles a number of years elapsed before the next great sculptor,Lysippos, appeared on the scene. He had been exclusively a sculptorin bronze, and one would expect to find among the many bronzes of our 74 GREEK BRONZES museums not a few specimens directly traceable to his influence, the moreso as he had been productive to an extraordinary degree, and becausehis works were in demand far and wide. But there are difficulties. Takefor instance the statue of a young athlete scraping his arm with a strigil,usually called an Apoxyomenos (Fig. 30). The original bronze statue hadbeen carried off from Greece to Rome, and is said to have so captivated. Fig. 31.—Limestone Figure of Heracles. British Museum. the young Tiberius that he had it removed to his palace, and only restoredit to its public position because of the clamour of the populace. Abeautiful marble copy of that statue is well known in the VaticanMuseum. We are told expressly by Pliny that the bronze original wasthe work of Lysippos. Then take a small limestone figure in the British Museum (Fig. 31),which, for all its roughness, is certainly a copy of the bronze statuette made GREEK BRONZES 75 by Lysippos as a present, it is said, to his patron, Alexander the Great,who carried it about in his campaigns to decorate his table. In laterRoman poets there is much romance as to the famous generals throughwhose hands that bronze had passed after the death of Alexander, andI need hardly add to the romance by stating that our rough copy of itcomes from Babylonia, where the great Macedonian died. The subjectof the statuette by Lysippos was a seated figure of Heracles, called, fr
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