Polykleitos

Born: Argos

Gender: male

Occupations

sculptor

Biography

Argive or Sicyonian noted as the sculptor of the chryselephantine Hera in the temple at Argos and of ideal male athlete figures in bronze that survive in Roman copies, especially the Doryphorus that exemplified his Canon Rule, which he detailed in a treatise on male beauty as derived from ideal mathematical proportions.

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Notable Works

Discophoros
Hera with Graces and Horai statue at Argos
Diadumenos
Doryphoros
Cyniscus statue at Olympia
Thersilochos statue at Olympia
Antipatros statue at Olympia

Artworks

4 artworks

Marble statue of Hermes

1st or 2nd century CE

Fragments of a marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

ca. 69–96 CE

Marble head of a youth

ca. 41–54 CE

Marble statue of the Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)

1st–2nd century CE

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