Lysippos of Sikyon (Heracles Resting)

Heracles (Resting).
Lysippos started his career as a humble worker with brass. Having no means to educate himself in the various schools of Sikyon, he taught himself the art of sculpture after hearing the painter Eupompos saying that he will not imitate any artist but nature itself. His words gave him courage and started studying living beings. Lysippos wants to give life and character to his statues and this is what underlies each one of his works. Impression comes naturally.
We can see all these in his Heracles, a copy by Glycon.
The original, a colossal statue of about three and a half meters tall, stood at the agora of Sikyon. There are variations of the Glycon copy and one of them at the Pitti Palace of Florence has an inscription with the name of Lysippos.