Polykleitos
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Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor, active in the 5th century BCE. Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered as one of the most important sculptors of cl
A Polykleitan Diadumenos, in a Roman marble copy, National Archaeological Museum of Athens
The Townley Marbles Discophoros, British Museum
Polykleitos's Doryphoros, an early example of classical contrapposto. Roman marble copy in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Apollo of the "Mantua type", marble Roman copy after a 5th-century-BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos, Musée du Louvre
Doryphoros
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The Doryphoros of Polykleitos is one of the best known Greek sculptures of Classical antiquity, depicting a solidly built, muscular, standing warrior, originally bearing a spear balanced on his left s
Polykleitos
…in her temple—the Heraion of Argos—was favourably compared with the Olympian Zeus by Pheidias. He also sculpted a famous bronze male nude known as the Doryphoros ("Spear Bearer"), which survives in the form of numerous Roman marble copies. Further sculptures attributed to Polykleitos are the Discophoros…
Head of Doryphoros excavated at the Villa of the Papyri in Pompeii
Composite picture showing the difference between marble and bronze versions of the Doryphoros
Statue of Augustus of Prima Porta