This marble portrait of the philosopher Aristotle was copied from a bronze sculpture made in the first or second century by Lysippos, who is considered to be one of the three most prolific and imitated artists of Classical Greece. So many copies were made of Lysippos’s work by his studio of assistants and by imitators, today it’s extremely difficult to identify which sculptures were actually made by the artist himself. Lysippos was a bit of a Grecian Jeff Koons...
Photo by MBZT, 2012
