Lysistratus
Lysistratus (Greek: Λυσίστρατος Σικυώνιος) 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.
See also
- Lysistrata, a comic play by Aristophanes.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae, 35, 153.