Lysippos

Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC who, with Scopas and Praxiteles, is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, helping to bring about the transition into the Hellenistic period. Born at Sicyon around 390 BC, he was a worker in bronze in his youth, taught himself the art of sculpture and later became head of the school of Argos and Sicyon. According to Pliny he produced more than 1,500 works, all in bronze, noted for grace, elegance and balanced proportion, with figures leaner than Polykleitos's ideal and smaller heads that made them look taller. He became personal sculptor to Alexander the Great. His pupil Chares of Lindos built the Colossus of Rhodes, and his three sons also became sculptors and his pupils.