Word: lysippus
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...sculptures from the ancient world have been more exhaustively studied, analyzed, Xrayed, measured and probed than the San Marco horses, but it is still not clear when they were made, or by whom. Certainly they are not, as was once supposed, works by Lysippus, the great Greek sculptor of the 4th century B.C. Current opinion puts them much later, in the 2nd century A.D., and considers them Roman, not Greek. If so, the horse at the Met is roughly contemporary with the finest of all Roman equestrian bronzes, the statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol in Rome...
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