Chap. 19.] CELEBRATED WORKS IN BRASS. 175 



and no artist, that he proposed to imitate. As already mention- 

 ed/^ Lysippus was most prolific in his works, and made more 

 statues than any other artist. Among these, is the Man using the 

 Body-scraper, which Marcus Agrippa had erected in front of his 

 "Warm Baths, ^^ and which wonderfully pleased the Emperor 

 Tiberius. This prince, although in the beginning of his reign 

 he imposed some restraint upon himself, could not resist the 

 temptation, and had this statue removed to his bed-chamber, 

 having substituted another for it at the baths : the people, 

 however, were so resolutely opposed to this, that at the theatre 

 they clamourously demanded the Apoxyomenos^^ to be replaced; 

 and the prince, notwithstanding his attachment to it, was 

 obliged to restore it. 



Lysippus is also celebrated for his statue of the intoxicated 

 Female Flute-player, his dogs and huntsmen, and, more parti- 

 cularly, for his Chariot with the Sun, as represented by the 

 Ehodians.^° He also executed a numerous series of statues of 

 Alexander the Great, commencing from his childhood, '^^ The 

 Emperor Nero was so delighted with his statue of the infant 

 Alexander, that he had it gilt ; this addition, however, to its 

 value, so detracted from its artistic beauty that the gold was 

 removed, and in this state it was looked upon as still more 

 precious, though disfigured by the scratches and seams which 

 remained upon it, and in which the gold was still to be seen.''^ 

 He also made the statue of Hephsestion, the friend of Alex- 

 ander the Great, which some persons attribute to Polycletus, 

 whereas that artist lived nearly a century before his time.^^ 

 Also, the statue of Alexander at the chase, now consecrated at 

 Delphi, the figure of a Satyr, now at Athens, and the Squadron 



16 In Chapter 17 of this Book.— B. 



1'' The same subject, which, as mentioned above, had been treated by 

 Polycletus.— B. is in the Eighth Region of the City. 



19 'ATTo^uojwevog, the Greek name of the statue, signifying one "scraping 

 himself." '"^^ The head encircled with rays. 



21 The lines of Horace are well known, in which he says, that Alex- 

 ander would allow his portrait to be painted by no one except Apelles, nor 

 his statue to be made by any one except Lysippus, Epist. B. ii. Ep. 1, 

 1. 237.— B. 



22 This expression would seem to indicate that the gold was attached to 

 the bronze by some mechanical process, and not that the statue was covered 

 with thin leaves of the metal.— B. 



23 This story is adopted by Apuleius, in the "Florida," B. i., who says 

 that Polycletus was the only artist who made a statue of Alexander. 



