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Lysippus the younger
( fl Rome, c. 1470–84). Italian medallist. The identity of this medallist, who named himself after the ancient Greek sculptor Lysippos of Sikyon, has not been established, although Raffaele Maffei in 1506 (Commentariorum urbanorum (Rome, 1506), xxi, p. 300 v) said he was the nephew of the Mantuan medallist Cristoforo di Geremia. Maffei referred to him by his pseudonym, and two of his medals are signed with this name, one of them, that of Martinus Phileticus, Professor of Greek at Rome, in Greek. Maffei also stated that in his youth Lysippus produced a medal of Sixtus IV, and it would appear that Lysippus spent his career at the papal court in Rome, modelling a large number of medallic portraits of papal officials.
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