Alypos (sculptor)
Alypos ( ancient Greek Ἄλυπος ) of Sikyon was a Greek sculptor who worked in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC. Was active. He was a student of Naukydes and thus belonged to the second generation in the succession of Polyklet . Alypos created a number of generals and victorious statues that were in the Apollo Shrine in Delphi and the Zeus shrine in Olympia .
The statues of the generals in Delphi were part of a votive offering from the Lacedaemonians , which Lysander made after the battle of Aigospotamoi between 405 and 403 BC. Was donated. Pausanias names statues of the Nauarchs Theopompos from Myndos , Cleomedes from Samos , Aristocles and Karystos from Euboia , Autonomos from Eretria , Aristophantos from Corinth , Apollodoros from Troizen and Dion from Epidaurus . The bases of the statues of Autonomos, Apollodoros and Theopompus were found during excavations in Delphi, the latter was also the base of a statue of Aiantides of Miletus , which was created by Teisandros . The traces of the statue feet on the bases suggest figures with the classical counterost that was co-developed by Polyklet .
According to the report of Pausanias, there were four victorious statues of Alypos in Olympia. Three of them were to the right of the Heraion : a statue of the wrestler Symmachos von Elis , who lived in 404 BC. Won the games, one of the Neolaidas of Pheneos , victor in the fistfight of the boys, and of Archedamos of Elis, who 396 BC. Was victorious in the wrestling of the boys. Another statue of Euthymenes of Mainalus was made on the occasion of his 400 BC. BC achieved victory in the wrestling of the boys created by Alypos.
literature
- Carl Robert : Alypos 2) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1711.
- Piero Orlandini: Alypos . In: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (ed.): Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale , Volume 1. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1958.
- Eberhard Paul , Werner Müller: Alypos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 28.
Remarks
- ↑ a b Pausanias 6, 1, 3.
- ^ Pausanias 10, 9, 10.
- ↑ Dorothea Arnold : The Polyklet successor. Studies on the art of Argos and Sikyon between Polyklet and Lysipp (= yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute , supplement 25). De Gruyter, Berlin 1969, p. 38.
- ↑ Eberhard Paul, Werner Müller: Alypos . In: Künstlerlexikon der Antike , p. 28.
- ↑ a b c list of winners at the Foundation of the Hellenic World
- ^ Pausanias 6: 8, 5.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alypos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἄλυπος (grcS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |