Marble head of a youth
Polykleitos
ca. 41–54 CE
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
H. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm.) Width 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm.) Depth 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)
Classification
Stone Sculpture
Culture & Period
Roman · Early Imperial, Claudian
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number
07.286.116
Tags
HeadsMen
About the Artist
Polykleitos
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.