disciple of Phidias, with Polykleitos of Argos. Pausanias is adamant that they were not the same person, and that Polykleitos was from Argos, in which...
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He was the son of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos, the Elder. Later in his life, Polykleitos built many other works of art, most of his work...
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it is written in the Canon of Polykleitos. Having taught us in this treatise all the symmetries of the body, Polykleitos ratified the text with a work...
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convey the essential form of Polykleitos' work. The sculpture stands at approximately 6 feet 11 inches tall. Polykleitos used distinct proportions when...
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together. In Classical Greece, the sculptor Polykleitos (fifth century BCE) established the Canon of Polykleitos. Though his theoretical treatise is lost...
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the chin. This unit of measurement is credited to the Greek sculptor Polykleitos (fifth century BCE) and has long been used by artists to establish the...
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Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works Polykleitos of Argos, 16.72 Polykleitos, The J. Paul Getty Museum (archived) Gardner, Percy (1911)...
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balance, of his figures, which were leaner than the ideal represented by Polykleitos and with proportionately smaller heads, giving them the impression of...
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name and its variants include: Polykleitos of Argos, Ancient Greek sculptor, creator of the Canon, also called Polykleitos the Elder to distinguish him...
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Diadumenos (redirect from Polykleitos's Diadoumenos and Doryphoros)
Sculpture by Polykleitos of a youth tying his headband...
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idealized standard musculature, varied from the facts of nature, to Polykleitos: Polykleitos set himself to perfect the internal structure of the torso. He...
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of the Canon of Polykleitos is immense in Classical Greek, Roman, and Renaissance sculpture, with many sculptors following Polykleitos's prescription. While...
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Apollo of Mantua, marble Roman copy after a 5th-century-BCE Greek original attributed to Polykleitos, Musée du Louvre...
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place, but Phidias, Kresilas, and Phradmon had all put Polykleitos at second place, thus, Polykleitos won, Pheidias came second, and Kresilas third. In Athens...
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Retrieved 2023-08-25. Barbara Hughes Fowler; Warren G. Moon, eds. (1995). Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299143107...
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A Roman copy of a statue of Aphrodite Areia found in Epidaurus, with the original created by the Polykleitos school....
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Statue of Titus modelled after the Doryphoros of Polykleitos, 79–81 AD, Vatican Museums...
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The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists Apelles and Polykleitos. It was the only work he ever signed. Vasari also reports the anecdote...
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modelled after a lost Greek original of the fourth century BC made by Polykleitos the Younger, and is now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of...
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Argos (4th century BCE) was a Greek sculptor from Argos. Taught under Polykleitos, he created a statue of gold and ivory of Hebe for the temple of Hera...
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from the 2nd-century AD, and the head of a youth by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos. In 2016, the terracotta head of the Greek god Hades was returned to...
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5th-century BC statue of the Spear Bearer or Doryphoros by the sculptor Polykleitos. The Doryphoros's contrapposto stance, creating diagonals between tense...
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hall), and a palaestra. The ancient theatre of Epidaurus was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC. The original 34 rows were extended...
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perfection. Possibly drawing on the ideas of Pythagoras, the sculptor Polykleitos wrote in his Canon that beauty consists in the proportion, not of the...
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became a defining element of Greek sculptural technique, culminating in Polykleitos' Canon. The Canon is a theoretical work that discusses ideal mathematical...
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Ancient Polykleitos Canon Vitruvius De architectura Renaissance Filippo Brunelleschi Leon Battista Alberti De pictura De re aedificatoria Piero della...
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statues of distinguished women. He was a pupil of the renowned sculptor Polykleitos. He was one of the artist's seven apprentices, who constituted a cluster...
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Kresilas, Ancient Greek sculptor MPC · 5981 5982 Polykletus 4862 T-1 Polykleitos (c. 480–423 BC), ancient Greek sculptor in bronze MPC · 5982 5983 Praxiteles...
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survive almost intact, the best known being at Epidaurus by the architect Polykleitos the Younger. Greek towns of substantial size also had a palaestra or...
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credited in antiquity to the sculptor Polykleitos the Younger, son of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos the Elder. The temple was erected in the...
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