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Polykleitos
Polykleitos was a Greek sculptor of Argos, active in the second half of the 5th century BCE and famous for his bronze statues of athletes. His Doryphoros, or Spear-Bearer, illustrated his treatise the Canon on the ideal proportions of the human body, and he made the gold and ivory statue of Hera for the Argive Heraion. His works survive mainly in Roman marble copies.
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