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LYSIPPOS' SCHOLARS.
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The style of the coiffure shows even greater variety, as it steadily passed from
the simplicity and naturalness of the Pheidian age over to greater elaboration,
a mirror of the growing luxury and elegance, and may best be studied on
coins.1001
During this age, when Athens was politically so low, and probably unable
to carry out great works, foreign rulers remembered her with regal gifts of
statuary and architecture.10?2 The only remaining representative of the exten-
sive buildings then erected is the so-called Tower of the Winds, an octagonal
structure, built in 159 B.C., by the astronomer Andronicos, of Kyrrhos in Syria,
more interesting for its meteorological plan
than for its art (Fig. 225). The building
was so constructed, that, against each of
its eight sides, there blew a different wind,
represented by a figure in relief.I003 Thus
Boreas, the North-wind, appears as a thickly
clad old man, with dishevelled hair, and
pouring hailstones out of a vase ; Zephy-
ros, the West-wind, is a gentle youth, scat-
tering flowers out of his lap ; and so each
of the winds is individualized in agreeable
allegory. But conception and rendering of
these forms, all of which float horizontally,
are hardly to be recognized as belonging
to Attic art, so inferior are they to all we
have from the days of its glory.
Fig. 225. The Tower of the Winds, or Horologion
of Andronicos (restored). Athens.
Turning now to the Peloponnesos, we
should find, that, at the opening of the
Hellenistic age, Lysippos' numerous schol-
ars were active ; although few names appear from a later date, the scattered
tombstones, votive reliefs, and honorary monuments found there testify to the
fact that there was activity then also, if not of a creative, progressive kind.
As had been the case with his forerunner Polycleitos, so around the great
Lysippos, there clustered a numerous school. Among these scholars were
Lysippos' own sons, Da'ippos, Boedas, and Euthycrates, who, according to
Pliny, were praiseworthy sculptors, and flourished in Olymp. 121 (296 B.C.),
when the Hellenistic age, with all its changes, had fully dawned upon the
Greek world. Concerning Da'ippos, we only know that he executed two statues
of victors for Olympia, and an Apoxyomenos, thus repeating a subject, as we
have seen, treated by his father.I0°4 Of Boedas' works, we only know of "one
Praying," as Pliny tersely describes it.Ion5 The practice of introducing nearly
every act with prayer, among the ancient Greeks, is well confirmed.10"6 The
551
The style of the coiffure shows even greater variety, as it steadily passed from
the simplicity and naturalness of the Pheidian age over to greater elaboration,
a mirror of the growing luxury and elegance, and may best be studied on
coins.1001
During this age, when Athens was politically so low, and probably unable
to carry out great works, foreign rulers remembered her with regal gifts of
statuary and architecture.10?2 The only remaining representative of the exten-
sive buildings then erected is the so-called Tower of the Winds, an octagonal
structure, built in 159 B.C., by the astronomer Andronicos, of Kyrrhos in Syria,
more interesting for its meteorological plan
than for its art (Fig. 225). The building
was so constructed, that, against each of
its eight sides, there blew a different wind,
represented by a figure in relief.I003 Thus
Boreas, the North-wind, appears as a thickly
clad old man, with dishevelled hair, and
pouring hailstones out of a vase ; Zephy-
ros, the West-wind, is a gentle youth, scat-
tering flowers out of his lap ; and so each
of the winds is individualized in agreeable
allegory. But conception and rendering of
these forms, all of which float horizontally,
are hardly to be recognized as belonging
to Attic art, so inferior are they to all we
have from the days of its glory.
Fig. 225. The Tower of the Winds, or Horologion
of Andronicos (restored). Athens.
Turning now to the Peloponnesos, we
should find, that, at the opening of the
Hellenistic age, Lysippos' numerous schol-
ars were active ; although few names appear from a later date, the scattered
tombstones, votive reliefs, and honorary monuments found there testify to the
fact that there was activity then also, if not of a creative, progressive kind.
As had been the case with his forerunner Polycleitos, so around the great
Lysippos, there clustered a numerous school. Among these scholars were
Lysippos' own sons, Da'ippos, Boedas, and Euthycrates, who, according to
Pliny, were praiseworthy sculptors, and flourished in Olymp. 121 (296 B.C.),
when the Hellenistic age, with all its changes, had fully dawned upon the
Greek world. Concerning Da'ippos, we only know that he executed two statues
of victors for Olympia, and an Apoxyomenos, thus repeating a subject, as we
have seen, treated by his father.I0°4 Of Boedas' works, we only know of "one
Praying," as Pliny tersely describes it.Ion5 The practice of introducing nearly
every act with prayer, among the ancient Greeks, is well confirmed.10"6 The