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Statue of Alexander the Great

Marble statue from Magnesia ad Sipylum, Lydia. Mid 3rd century BC.

Alexander the Great, wearing a himation (cloak) around his left shoulder and lower body, and with his left hand holding the handle of his sheathed sword.

Found with a marble base inscribed with a dedication to Meter Sipylene, the local mother goddess, and the signature of Means of Pergamon.

- Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

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Hephaestion & Alexander

Marble statuettes of Hephaistion (left) and Alexander the Great from Egypt. Probably 1st century BC. From a statue group erected in Alexandria in Hephaistion's honour.

The figures stand in mirrored contrapposto poses, each with the opposite arm raised. Each wears a chlamys, chiton, zona belt and open-toed, lace-up boots. It is tempting to speculate that the figures were placed next to each other, each holding a horse, in the manner in which the twin divine horsemen heroes Castor and Pollux (the Dioskouri) were represented in sculptures and coins.

-National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

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Bust of Alexander the Great

By Pierre II Legros known as Le Jeune.

This marble bust depicts Alexander the Great wearing a helmet reminiscent of his status of chief of the Macedonian armies.

Wrapped in a lion’s skin, an attribute of Heracles, he also measures up to the twelve labors of this half mortal and half-deity hero, in light of his multiple military triumphs.

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Azara Herm

This work takes the form of a herm: a pillar whose upper part has been sculpted in the shape of a head. It shows a young man, his head slightly lifted.

Thanks to its original antique inscription, this figure can be definitely identified as Alexander the Great, son of Philip II of Macedon. The leonine hair brushed up from the forehead is characteristic of portraits of the Macedonian sovereign.

The work is a copy of the head of a work from 330 BC attributed to Lysippos - doubtless the statue of Alexander with a bronze lance mentioned by Plutarch.

- Louvre Museum, Paris.

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Head of Alexander the Great

From the Court of the Passage of the Theoroi, Thasos, Greece. 2nd century AD.

Thasos was one of the first cities to worship Alexander as a god. An annual Alexandreia festival was held there on his birthday. This head features one of the most obvious examples of the "anastole" hairstyle characteristic of several portraits of Alexander.

- Thasos Archaeological Museum.

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Head of Alexander the Great

Circa 1st century AD.

The Macedonian ruler depicted lifesized, with a muscular neck, the laryngeal prominence bulging, his head turned to his right, his forehead creased, the deep-set eyes with modeled lids, his small mouth with parted lips, his thick, leonine hair swept up at the forehead in characteristic anastole.

- Antiquities, Sotheby's, London.

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Head of Alexander the Great

1st half of the 2nd century BC. Found in 1900 among rubble above the north hall of the Lower Agora in Pergamon.

The head, along with the rubble, may have fallen from a building uphill from the agora, perhaps the gymnasium.

- Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

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Alexander Guimet

Head of Alexander the Great known as Alexander Guimet, marble sculpture found in Cairo, Egypt.

Hellenistic civilisation, 4th-3rd century BC, according to the prototype created by the Athenian sculptor Leochares.

- Paris, Louvre Museum.

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Head of Alexander the Great

Ptolemaic about 200 BC, found in Eygpt.

He is shown youthful and clean-shaven, with leonine hair that includes distinctive raised curls above the forehead.

- British Museum, London.

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Bust of Alexander the Great

By Viktor Brodzki, 19th century.

Head and base: white marble; cuirass and drapery: red Siena marble.

- Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Alexander & Hephaestion

Alexander and his copain Hephaestion. Both life-sized heads are said to have been found in Megara as part of a funerary monument for some courtier who admired and probably worshipped Alexander.

The ensemble has been dated to 320 BC, meaning that it was made only three years after Alexander’s death in 323 BC. Striking that these are true Greek heads and no copies made by the Romans in later years.

- Getty Villa, Malibu, LA.

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Statue of Alexander the Great

This bronze statue is dated to the 2nd century BC (late Hellenistic period).

It's actually a portrait of Alexander the Great. This attractive hypothesis was confirmed by comparative studies with other ancient portraits of Alexander, made by the sculptor Lysippos. The whole work evokes the style of the sculptor: the attitude, the proportions, but especially the hairstyle and a certain melancholy of the features.

- Ephèbe Museum and Underwater Archeology, Agde, France.

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Head of Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great, copy of a portrait of Lysippos, from Alexandria, Egypt, 3rd cent. BCE.

- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

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Head of Alexander the Great

Marble head of Alexander the Great in his early years.

- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

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Statue of Alexander the Great

Marble statuette of Alexander the Great. Around 150 AD.

The statuette may have been at first restored as Archangel Michael. It was restored again as a Roman emperor, probably after the French Cardinal Melchior de Polignac took it with him on his return to Paris.

- Pergamon Museum, Berlin.

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Alexander the Great on Bucephalus

Bronze of the Roman period (1st century BC) from the original by Lysippos (4th century BC).

Alexander, with swept-back, wavy hair, wears a royal diadem, a short chlamys (cloak), a cuirass over a short chiton, and laced high military sandals. The figure originally held a sword in his right hand, and reins in the left, probably both of silver.

- Naples, Archaeological Museum.

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Alexander With a Lance

Lysippos's statue "Alexander with a Lance," made in the 320s BC, portrayed Alexander armed and naked, echoing the great heroes of Greek mythology like Achilles with whom he identified.

He stood with his weight on one leg, one arm extended and holding a spear, the other hanging down at his side. This broken statuette, carved in the 100s BC, is a small-scale variant of that original.

- The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles).