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Polykleitos
Fifth century BCE Greek sculptor · Artists · Lived 490 BC to 420 BC · aged 70
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Something wrong?Fifth-century BCE sculptor whose lost treatise - the Canon - laid out the mathematical proportions of the ideal male body, a blueprint so influential it shaped classical sculpture for centuries after he died.
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"The Discus Bearer"
Archäologisches Museum Thira Kopf 01.jpg?width=1200)
Atrium of the American Academy in Rome, featuring a Polykletian male torso (AAR, inv. no. 9405).jpg?width=1200)
Cabeza de un joven atleta (British Museum)
Corinthian capital - Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus
Head of young man, marble, akording to Polykleitian model, AM Fira, 176785
Male statue Via Capo di Ferro Musei Capitolini MC1842
Marble head of a youth Copy of work attributed to Polykleitos ca. 41-54 CE, DP-14287-059In their own words 1
Statue of Zeus in Olympia
About this person
Polykleitos worked in the 5th century BCE, ranked by ancient catalogues between Pheidias and Myron among the most important sculptors of classical antiquity. His Canon of Polykleitos set out a mathematical system for body proportions, an idealized standard that became foundational. None of his original work survives. What remains are Roman marble copies, believed to echo sculptures now lost, carrying forward a geometry he codified when stone was still being cut by hand.
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