Lysippos

Lysippos of Sicyon began as a bronze worker, largely taught himself sculpture and rose to head the school of Argos and Sicyon. He replaced the sturdy proportions of Polykleitos with leaner bodies and smaller heads, making figures seem taller and more alive in space, as in the Apoxyomenos. Pliny credits him with some 1,500 bronzes, none known to survive in the original. Alexander the Great reportedly allowed no other sculptor to portray him.