Hellenistic Art
Hellenistic art was, from the end of the IVth century BC until the Ist century BC, the artistic medium which expressed the states created on the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC). In this period art, pressed into service at the courts of the various rulers, took on a celebrative character, individualistic and highly decorative, developing in various genres. One of the most important artists of the period was Lysippus of Sidon, who, drawing on his knowledge of the Attic schools, elaborated a personal version of the “Canon” of the great bronze worker Polyclitus (Vth century BC), achieving new solutions and a great spatial freedom, which make him one of the greatest artists of the period.
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