Cheres, the disciple of Lysippus, cast the famous brazen. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
Lysippus; though an inferior work, it illustrates the statements of. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Hercules of Lysippus, and probably executed in the Macedonian period. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He tried to persuade Lysippus, then General of the Achaeans, to succor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The portrait statues of Alexander the Great by Lysippus were very numerous. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
A very fine marble copy of the celebrated bronze of Lysippus is in the Vatican. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
It was followed by Lysippus, who called the Doryphoros of that artist his master. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Marble copy of the bronze original by Lysippus, a sculptor of the fourth century B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Lysippus, the successor of Praxiteles and Scopas, was a contemporary of Alexander the Great. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Lysistratus, the brother of Lysippus, began to take moulds in plaster from individual faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Pliny regarding the proportions adopted by Lysippus -- a small head and the body long and slim. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Lysippus worked only in bronze, and was the only sculptor that Alexander the Great permitted to represent him in statues. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Another statue dates from his establishment of Alexandria in Egypt, this by Lysippus, one of the Macedonian Court artists. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Turn to the sculptors if you will; Lysippus perished from hunger while in profound meditation upon the lines of a single statue, and. From Wordnik.com. [Satyricon] Reference
Lysippus above all others, merely from personal favour to them, but because he thought that their art would be a glory at once to them and to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Lysippus, and the roof itself is covered with gilded tiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The work would do no discredit to a Phidias, to a Lysippus. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
But Lysippus would have made wonderful groups of her and thee. From Wordnik.com. [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference
Athlete of Lysippus, the Torso Belvidere, sculptured by Apollonius, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Phidias, Praxiteles, and Lysippus moulded their clay models, they had a. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Peloponnesus; for after the time of Lysippus the sculpture of Argos and. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
Lysippus and Alexander; and Lessing, in the time of the first Emperors. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference
Phidias of Tragedy, Sophocles her Polycletus, and Euripides her Lysippus. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference
Art had reached its perfection under Lysippus; there was nothing more to learn. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Nicias was famous for his dogs, Myron for his cows, and Lysippus for his horses. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Phidias and Euphranor, Zeuxis and Protogenes, Polygnotus and Lysippus, were both. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
His advice to Lysippus is memorable -- "Let Nature, not an artist, be your model.". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Sculpture in Greece culminated, as an art, in Lysippus, who worked chiefly in bronze. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Venetians by the Austrians in 1815, were at one time supposed to belong to the school of Lysippus. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference
Brunn, in his history of ancient sculpture, attributes them to the school of Lysippus, a contemporary of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
With Lysippus of Sicyon we reach the last name of first-rate importance in the history of Greek sculpture. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
Lysippus, amid the debris of useless fabrics, to be dug up when wanted and valued, as models of new creations. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
In the sack of Constantinople, the French, and even the Venetians, had despised and destroyed the works of Lysippus and. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6] Reference
The school of Lysippus was famous for the statues of celebrated men, especially in cities where Macedonian rulers resided. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The horses of Lysippus, carried from Greece to Rome, and from Rome to Constantinople, at last surmounted the palace of the Doges. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Lights of History] Reference
The hair is finely executed; this was a point in which Lysippus excelled; but the great charm of the whole is in the pose of the figure. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
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