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A mark of the continuing artistic value placed on the Diadumenos type in the modern era, once it had been reconnected with Polyclitus in 1878, may be drawn from the facts that a copy was among the sculptures ranged on the roof of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, when it was completed in 1889, [8] and that the Esquiline Venus has sometimes been interpreted as a female version of the ...
A Polykleitan Diadumenos, in a Roman marble copy, National Archaeological Museum of Athens. His Greek name was traditionally Latinized Polycletus, but is also transliterated Polycleitus (Ancient Greek: Πολύκλειτος, Classical Greek Greek pronunciation: [polýkleːtos], "much-renowned") and, due to iotacism in the transition from Ancient to Modern Greek, Polyklitos or Polyclitus.
Perhaps the best known copy of the Doryphoros was excavated in Pompeii and now resides in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli [Naples, Museo Nazionale 6011]. Held in the same museum is a bronze herma of Apollonios [height 0.54 m, Naples, Museo Nazionale 4885], considered by many scholars to be an almost flawless replica of the original ...
The sculpture is one of a series of Roman statues found across the empire that were modelled on a lost original made in bronze by the sculptor Polykleitos in about 440 BC. . The Diadumenos was the winner of an athletic tournament at a games, still nude after the contest and lifting his arms to knot a ribbon-band across his h
The Idolino, or Idolino of Pesaro, is a Roman bronze statue of a nude youth in contrapposto, standing 146 cm high, made in approximately 30 B.C. [1] It is a copy of a Greek sculpture in the style of Polyclitus made in approximately 440 B.C. [2] It received the name "Idolino," which is Italian for "Little Idol," in the 19th century.
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Polyclitus is a Greek name. Notable people with the name and its variants include: Polykleitos of Argos, Ancient Greek sculptor, creator of the Canon, also called Polykleitos the Elder to distinguish him from his son, below
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