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

1st–2nd century CE

Medium

Marble

Dimensions

H. without plinth 67 1/4 in. (170.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903

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.