Lysistratus

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Lysistratus was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, brother of Lysippus of Sicyon. We are told by Pliny the Elder that he followed a strongly realistic line, being the first sculptor to take impressions of human faces in plaster.

See also

• Lysistrata, a comic play by Aristophanes.

References

• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae, 35, 153.

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