Alessandro di lysippos biography

Apoxyomenos (The Scraper)

Lysippos received numerous portrait commissions from Alexander's Generals.

Alessandro di lysippos biography

And, as he was also head of the famous athletic school of Peloponnese, Lysippos naturally sculpted many athletes. Most popular at the time as a commission, was a figure of an athlete, scraping his body with a strigil - a curved instrument, used to scrap oil, dirt and sweat from the body.

Apoxyomenos (The Scraper) is a known Roman marble copy which can be seen in the Vatican Museum.

The Farnese Hercules

Lysippos' colossal marble statue of Hercules resting on his club after his labours, known as the Farnese Hercules (the original copy was placed in the Baths of Caracalla, but the best surviving marble copy can be seen in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples), was highly influential and much copied.

(For many years it was part of the art collection of the Farnese family, whose members included Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549), later