Lysistratus

Lysistratus

Lysistratus 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.

ee also

*"Lysistrata", a comic play by Aristophanes.

References

*1911
*Pliny the Elder, "Naturalis Historiae", 35, 153.


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