...Apoxyomenos (or The Scraper, known …
Years: 341BCE - 341BCE
According to Pliny, he produced more than fifteen hundred works, all of them in bronze.
Commentators noted his grace and elegance, and the symmetria or coherent balance of his figures, which were leaner than the ideal represented by Polykleitos and with proportionately smaller heads, giving them the impression of greater height.
He was famous for his attention to the details of eyelids and toenails.
His pupil, Chares of Lindos, will construct the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
As this statue does not exist today, debate continues as to whether its sections were cast in bronze or hammered of sheet bronze.
Copy after Lysippos: So-called “Apoxyomenos” (“the Scraper”). Marble, Roman copy of the 1st century CE after a Greek bronze original ca. 320 BCE. Vatican Museums. (Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2009))
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Years: 341BCE - 341BCE
Copy after Lysippos: So-called “Apoxyomenos” (“the Scraper”). Marble, Roman copy of the 1st century CE after a Greek bronze original ca. 320 BCE. Vatican Museums. (Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2009))
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