Lysistratus

Lysistratus (Λυσίστρατος) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, brother of Lysippus of Sicyon. We are told by Pliny the Elder that he followed a strongly realistic line, being the first sculptor to take impressions of human faces in plaster.

References

  • This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
  • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae, 35, 153.



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