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Marble head of a youth
Marble head of a youth
Artist : Polykleitos


Date : between 41 and 54

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1907)
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
Item 11 on 23
Greek Antiquities
Sculpture (Tête)

Area related
Greece



Description   

Copy of a Greek bronze statue of ca. 450 B.C. This head is associated with the statue of a nude athlete who probably held a diskos. The famous Greek sculptor Polykleitos sought rigorous, mathematically based proportions in his figures. "Perfection comes about little through many number", he reported to have stated. His attention to the smallest details can be seen in the precise design of each lock on his head.
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