Marble statue of Hermes
Polykleitos
1st or 2nd century CE
Medium
Marble, Pentellic
Dimensions
Overall: 71 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (181 x 74.9 x 59.7 cm)
Classification
Stone Sculpture
Culture & Period
Roman · Imperial
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956
Accession Number
56.234.15
Tags
Hermes
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.