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Marble head of a youth

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1907

Classification

Stone Sculpture

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Culture

Roman

Period

Early Imperial, Claudian

Rights

Public Domain

About 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.