Knidos Vs Lysippos Essay

Two of the most famous sculptors that chapped our concept for art. The first sculptor is Praxiteles. The second one is Lysippos.There are many sculptures for Praxiteles, one of his famous works is The Aphrodite of Knidos. This magnificent piece of art is often referred to another sculptor Venus Pudica (modest Venus) the name was a reference to the statue covering her genital area. The statute covering her genital area was an attempt to make her more modest, but the gesture only emphasized the fact that she was naked. According to an old legend, it’s been said that The goddess Aphrodite came down to earth herself to examine her statue because apparently, it was flawlessly accurate to how she looked like and exclaimed: “When did Praxiteles see me naked?” (Stokstad 111). Praxiteles had certain techniques such as using many curves, smaller heads, and heavier bodies. The Aphrodite Statue was the first …show more content…
He was known for being Alexander the Great’s personal sculptor. He was the successor of Polykleitos; he was one of the greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek period. Lysippos had a similar concept of the human body as Praxiteles; the only difference is his way of representing and communicating his sculptures to his viewers. One of Lysippos’ sculptures is the statue of Apoxyomenos. Many know it as the “Scraper” because the statue represents an athlete scraping sweat off his body with an instrument called strigil. Lysippos’ other pieces of artwork include the great bronze statues of Zeus and Hercules, portraits of Alexander the great and the statue of Socrates. One of the most popular sculptures of Lysippos is The Weary Herakles. This sculpture shows nude Herakles with tokens of his many achievements. Herakles in this sculpture is leaning on a stick with his head held toward the ground. The sculpture had a lot of muscular structure that is very similar to the sculpture “Hermes” by Praxiteles and Polykleitos sculpture of