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Marble statue of Hermes
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Marble statue of Hermes

1st or 2nd century CE

Medium

Marble, Pentellic

Tags

Dimensions

Overall: 71 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (181 x 74.9 x 59.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956

Classification

Stone Sculpture

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Culture

Roman

Period

Imperial

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.