Quotes:Lysippus

Zirkoff, Boris

Lysippus. Greek sculptor, head of the school of Argos and Sicyon in the days of Philip and Alexander of Macedon. He worked in bronze only. Modified the canon of Holycleitus towards a slenderer type, and seems to have produced striking types of Zeus, Poseidon, the Sun-god, etc. He became the court sculptor of Alexander the Great of whom he made many statues. His work is spoken of by Pliny.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 580