Lysippos of Sikyon (Apoxyomenos)

Apoxyomenos
"Other artists make men as they are, I make them as they appear". These are the words of Lysippos of Sikyon, expressing his unique style. With him the art of sculpture receives new blood. The stocky full of muscles figure of Polykleitos Doryphoros is replaced by a more slender and graceful one.
Lysippos makes the legs slender and longer, the head also smaller, whose ratio is not one seventh of Polykleitos but one eighth. All these result in a more delicate, taller figure.
But the real significance of Lysippos is that he revolutionizes the art by giving to his works, a true third dimension. In this statue he succeeds that, by positioning the hands in such a way, extending one to the full, the other bent slightly underneath, all these in perfect harmony. From whichever point you view the statue, this is its true face. Most of his works invite you to look them from all directions.