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TYCHE BY EUTYCHIDES.
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obscure, that opinions differ as to its purport.10-?8 Among his works, several
seem to have been in honor of the great Alexander: a Heracles by him was in
Delphi, and a Trophonios in Lebadeia. One scholar of Euthycrates is men-
tioned, Tisicrates,—whose works, however, are said to have resembled Lysippos'
more than those of his teacher. 1099 Tisicrates' statues, representing a The-
ban sire, King Demetrios, and
Peukestes, one of Alexander's
generals, show that his activity
fell at the opening of this new
age, and was employed for
its influential men. Another
member of this school, Xeno-
crates, — by some called a
scholar of Euthycrates, and by
others of Tisicrates,—appears,
according to Pliny, to have
been more productive than
either of these men, and to
have worked exclusively in
bronze. He also wrote books
on art, sources from which
Pliny frequently quoted. But
the true importance of this
master has only recently come
to our knowledge; the exca-
vations at Pergamon having
shown us that he was employed
there, doubtless carrying over
the traditions of the Lysippian
school into that new centre of
art. On one of the Pergamon
pedestals, which stood on the
piazza in front of Athena's
temple, and which bore bronze —~-—*_------mr^xy'
Statues, his name may Still be Fig. 22L The City Goddess Tyc/w and the Riocr God Oronies. Vatican.
read."00 Of Phanis, another
of Lysippos' scholars, we only know, that he represented a "woman offer-
ing."110' But of still another, Eutychides, of Sikyon, we learn, that his prime
was in the early part of the third century; and that, like so many artists of
this time, he was employed by the rising rulers of other parts of the world.
Unlike most Sikyon masters, he is said to have worked in marble as well as
in bronze, and was a painter as well as sculptor. A Dionysos in marble by
553
obscure, that opinions differ as to its purport.10-?8 Among his works, several
seem to have been in honor of the great Alexander: a Heracles by him was in
Delphi, and a Trophonios in Lebadeia. One scholar of Euthycrates is men-
tioned, Tisicrates,—whose works, however, are said to have resembled Lysippos'
more than those of his teacher. 1099 Tisicrates' statues, representing a The-
ban sire, King Demetrios, and
Peukestes, one of Alexander's
generals, show that his activity
fell at the opening of this new
age, and was employed for
its influential men. Another
member of this school, Xeno-
crates, — by some called a
scholar of Euthycrates, and by
others of Tisicrates,—appears,
according to Pliny, to have
been more productive than
either of these men, and to
have worked exclusively in
bronze. He also wrote books
on art, sources from which
Pliny frequently quoted. But
the true importance of this
master has only recently come
to our knowledge; the exca-
vations at Pergamon having
shown us that he was employed
there, doubtless carrying over
the traditions of the Lysippian
school into that new centre of
art. On one of the Pergamon
pedestals, which stood on the
piazza in front of Athena's
temple, and which bore bronze —~-—*_------mr^xy'
Statues, his name may Still be Fig. 22L The City Goddess Tyc/w and the Riocr God Oronies. Vatican.
read."00 Of Phanis, another
of Lysippos' scholars, we only know, that he represented a "woman offer-
ing."110' But of still another, Eutychides, of Sikyon, we learn, that his prime
was in the early part of the third century; and that, like so many artists of
this time, he was employed by the rising rulers of other parts of the world.
Unlike most Sikyon masters, he is said to have worked in marble as well as
in bronze, and was a painter as well as sculptor. A Dionysos in marble by