The portraits of Alexander the Great by …
Years: 333BCE - 322BCE
The portraits of Alexander the Great by artists such as Lysippus and Apelles inaugurate a tradition of heroic-ruler imagery.
A finely sculpted head of Aristotle (the first certain example of true portraiture), attributed to Lysippus and executed in Greece in the 320s BCE or possibly earlier, gives the impression not only of a convincing sense of physical reality but an intangible feeling of personality as well.
![Hermes-type bust (pillar with the top as a sculpted head) of Alexander the Great called Hermes Azara. Bears the inscription: "Alexander [the Great], son of Philip, [king of] Macedonia."](/media/uploads/images/AlexandreLouvre.jpg)
Hermes-type bust (pillar with the top as a sculpted head) of Alexander the Great called Hermes Azara. Bears the inscription: "Alexander [the Great], son of Philip, [king of] Macedonia."
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Years: 333BCE - 322BCE
Hermes-type bust (pillar with the top as a sculpted head) of Alexander the Great called Hermes Azara. Bears the inscription: "Alexander [the Great], son of Philip, [king of] Macedonia."
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