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  2. Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

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    In the human body, the central point is the navel. If a man is placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a compass centered at his navel, his fingers and toes will touch the circumference of a circle thereby described. And just as the human body yields a circular outline, so too a square may be found from it.

  3. Polykleitos - Wikipedia

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    The length of the diagonal of a square of this side (mathematically, √ 2, about 1.4142) gives the length of the middle phalange. Repeating the process gives the length of the proximal phalange; doing so again gives the length of the metacarpal plus the carpal bones – the distance from knuckle to the head of the ulna. Next, a square of side ...

  4. Kouros - Wikipedia

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    Kouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος, pronounced, plural kouroi) is the modern term [a] given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia , with a less frequent presence in many other Ancient Greek territories such as Sicily.

  5. Category:Greek male bodybuilders - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Greek male bodybuilders" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Jim Badra; K.

  6. Herm (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Herma of Demosthenes from the Athenian Agora, work by Polyeuktos, c. 280 BC, Glyptothek. A herma (Ancient Greek: ἑρμῆς, plural ἑρμαῖ hermai), [1] commonly herm in English, is a sculpture with a head and perhaps a torso above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height.

  7. Kynodesme - Wikipedia

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    Picture of a classical Greek athlete wearing the kynodesme (attributed to the Triptolemos painter, dating from about 480 BC) A kynodesmē (Greek: κυνοδέσμη, English translation: "dog tie") was a cord or string [1] or sometimes a leather strip that was worn primarily by athletes in Ancient Greece and Etruria to prevent the exposure of the glans penis in public (considered to be ill ...

  8. Heroic nudity - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Greek art, warriors on reliefs and painted vases were often shown as nude in combat, which was not in fact the Greek custom, and in other contexts. Idealized young men (but not women) were carved in kouros figures, and cult images in the temples of some male deities were nude. Later, portrait statues of the rich, including Roman ...

  9. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Human male body

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    Naked human male body, seen in frontal or anterior view, standing in w:anatomic position. Reason Large and detailed image of the human body Articles this image appears in Human body (so far - just uploaded it) Creator Mikael Häggström. Support as nominator (and model) Mikael Häggström 19:19, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

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