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    The Doryphoros (Greek Δορυφόρος Classical Greek Greek pronunciation: [dorypʰóros], "Spear-Bearer"; Latinised as Doryphorus) of Polykleitos is one of the...
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    "marginal" by Jeffery M. Hurwit, "The Doryphoros: Looking Backward", in Warren G. Moon, ed. Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition, 1995:3-18. Richard...
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    The Diadumenos ("diadem-bearer"), together with the Doryphoros (spear bearer), are two of the most famous figural types of the sculptor Polyclitus, forming...
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    Skopas, etc. The Polykletian statues (Discophoros ("discus-bearer") and Doryphoros ("spear-bearer"), for example) are idealized athletic young men with the...
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    sculpture by the classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus, creator of the Doryphoros and Diadumenos, and its many Roman marble copies. It is not, however,...
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    was originally a construction of great power. Such is the copy of the Doryphoros in the Uffizi. Hellenistic rulers added divine emblems, such as thunderbolts...
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    Barbara Hughes Fowler; Warren G. Moon, eds. (1995). Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299143107. Look...
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    to Doryphoros. The right leg is taut, while the left leg is relaxed, as if the statue is moving forward. The misidentification of the Doryphoros in the...
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    Polykleitos (c.450–420 BCE), known for his ideally proportioned bronze Doryphoros, wrote an influential Canon (now lost) describing the proportions to be...
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    proportions and balance. Though the Kanon was probably represented by his Doryphoros, the original bronze statue has not survived, but later marble copies...
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  • stakes, after which he was dispatched by his freedman "Doryphorus". As "doryphoros" means "spear bearer" (Δορυφόρος) like the statue, it may be that the...
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    Research Center in Egypt. 3: 43–50. doi:10.2307/40000984. ISSN 0065-9991. "Doryphoros torso | Artworks | Uffizi Galleries". www.uffizi.it. Retrieved 2021-05-08...
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    pp. 185-ss HURWIT, Jeffrey. "The Doryphoros: Looking Backward". In MOON, Warren G. (ed). Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition. University of Wisconsin...
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    Statue of Titus modelled after the Doryphoros of Polykleitos, 79–81 AD, Vatican Museums...
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    Roman copy in marble of Doryphoros, originally a bronze by Polykleitos...
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    distinctive feature of antique sculpture, initially manifested in the Doryphoros of Polykleitos (c. 440 BC). This is typified in David; this classic pose...
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    Charities) were minor goddesses of Greek mythology. Numerous Roman copies of Doryphoros (‘Spear-Bearer’) have been found around Campania including one in Pompeii...
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    Raffaele Stern, houses statues including the Augustus of Prima Porta, the Doryphoros, and The River Nile. It is in the Neoclassical style and has a wide arched...
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    and elements, when they used Greek and Roman statues as models, such as Doryphoros of Polykleitos and Discobolus of Myron, which stood out against the plain...
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    of ancient athletic and military heroes in Classical sculpture such as Doryphoros and Augustus of Prima Porta. The painting was brought to Poland, along...
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    and there are several bronze copies of famous Greek sculptures like the Doryphoros and busts of Greek philosophers like Pythagoras and Democritus.: 68–69 ...
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    adaptation of classical sculptures of athletes such as Polykleitos's Doryphoros and Myron's Discobolus. The plaster model for the work and the first casting...
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    correct plural: diogmitai]). Moon, Warren G. (1995). Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and tradition. Wisconsin studies in classics (illustrated ed.). Univ...
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    power and "of no consequence at the time", had served as a spearman (doryphoros) in the Egyptian campaign (528–525 BCE) of Cambyses II, then the Persian...
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    Stabiae Doriforo, a Roman-era copy of the ancient Greek sculpture The Doryphoros of Polykleitos, which Italy said was looted from Stabiae and was subsequently...
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    Polykleitos: The Doryphoros, the summary of the aesthetic idealism of Classicism...
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    itself is lost to history, its principles manifest themselves in the Doryphoros ("spear-bearer"), which adopted extremely dynamic and sophisticated contrapposto...
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    Calpurnius Piso Pontifex found in the villa's tablinum Herm with head of Doryphoros found in the square peristyle Known as Pseudo-Seneca, probably a poet...
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    Scopas, the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, the Barberini Faun, the Doryphoros. Since the types of objects described in classical ekphrases often lack...
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    making the bronze statue Achilles (also known as The Spear Bearer or Doryphoros), which he finishes about ten years later. A Roman copy of the original...
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