Polykleitos

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Doryphoros
Doryphoros
by Polykleitos
Classical Greek · Polykleitos · c. 440 BCE
The "Spear Bearer" — a treatise on ideal human proportion made in marble. Polykleitos wrote a book called the Canon about it; only this statue survives.