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According to the Greek historian, Plutarch, Alexander gave Lysippos sole authority for making his statues because of his ability to fashion an ideal image of the king's maleness and brilliant virtues. This marble herm portrait, a Roman copy of a Greek original, is thought to be based directly on a work by Lysippos, either an original statue or a plaster cast. Found in Tivoli by an eighteenth-century Spanish ambassador and later presented to Napoleon, the herm is inscribed "Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian." |