Polykleitos consciously created a new approach to sculpture ; he wrote a treatise ( Kanon ) and designed a male nude ( also known as Kanon ) exemplifying his aesthetic theories of the mathematical bases of artistic perfection, which motivated Kenneth Clark to place him among " the great puritans of art ": His Kanon " got its name because it had a precise commensurability ( symmetria ) of all the parts to one another " " His general aim was clarity, balance, and completeness ; his sole medium of communication the naked body of an athlete, standing poised between movement and repose " Kenneth Clark observed.

The objects included a Greek red-figure kylix from the 5th-century BC, signed by the painter Onesimos and the potter Euphronios as potter, looted from the Etruscan site of Cerveteri ; a torso of the god Mithra from the 2nd-century AD, and the head of a youth by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos.

A characteristic of Polykleitos ' Doryphoros is the classical contrapposto in the pelvis ; the figure's stance is such that one leg seems to be in movement while he is standing on the other.

This period is one of discovery of the expressive possibilities of the human body ; there is a greater freedom in the poses and gestures, and an increased attention to anatomical verisimilitude as may be observed in the ponderated stances of the figures W9 and W4 who partially anticipate the Doryphoros of Polykleitos.

Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

According to the canon of the Classical Greek Sculptor Polykleitos in the 4th century BC, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc.

* Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works Polykleitos of Argos, 16. 72

The architectural design of the building was credited in antiquity to the sculptor Polykleitos the Younger, son of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos the Elder.

The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists, Apelles and Polykleitos.

Polykleitos, along with Phidias, created the Classical Greek style.

Polykleitos and Phidias were of the first generation of Greek sculptors to have a schools of followers.

* Polykleitos, Ancient Greek sculptor

** Polykleitos the Younger, the Greek sculptor's son

Polykleitos the Younger () ( circa 4th century BC ) was an ancient Greek sculptor of athletes.

He was the son of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos, the Elder.

Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is in his art a successor of the Classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos.

According to his findings, the altar was erected between 166 and 156 BC as a general victory monument commemorating the triumphs of the Pergamenes, and especially of Eumenes II, over the Macedonians, the Galatians and the Seleucids, and was designed by Phyromachos, the seventh and last of the greatest Greek sculptors, who included Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Scopas, Praxiteles and Lysippos.

The Greek sculptor Polykleitos designed a work, perhaps this one, as an example of the " canon " or " rule ", showing the perfectly harmonious and balanced proportions of the human body in the sculpted form.

" Polykleitos ", in O. Palagia and J. J. Pollitt, eds, Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture ( Yale Classical Studies XXX ) ( Cambridge University Press ) 1998: 66-90.

Finally, this is the germ from which the art of Polykleitos was to grow two or three generations later.

He was a contemporary, but a somewhat older contemporary, of Pheidias and Polykleitos.

Polykleitos ' Astragalizontes (" Boys Playing at Knuckle-bones ") was claimed by the Emperor Titus and set in a place of honour in his atrium.

The theater was designed by Polykleitos the Younger in the 4th century BC.

A renowned sculptor, Polykleitos the Younger was architect of the Theatre and Tholos at Epidaurus.

Lysippos was successor in contemporary repute to the famous sculptor Polykleitos.

* Polykleitos starts making the bronze statue Achilles ( also known as The Spear Bearer or Doryphoros ), which he finishes about ten years later.

In this enclosure were found the bronze herma of Doryphorus, a replica of Polykleitos ' athlete, and the herma of an Amazon made by Apollonios son of Archias of Athens.

The marble sculpture and a bronze head that had been retrieved at Herculaneum were published in Le Antichità di Ercolano, ( 1767 ) but were not identified as representing Polykleitos ' Doryphorus until 1863.

By this Polykleitos meant that a statue should be composed of clearly definable parts, all related to one another through a system of ideal mathematical proportions and balance, no doubt expressed in terms of the ratios established by Pythagoras for the perfect intervals of the musical scale: 1: 2 ( octave ), 2: 3 ( harmonic fifth ), and 3: 4 ( harmonic fourth ).

Polykleitos ' Doryphoros ( Spear-Bearer ), an early example of classical contrapposto.

Polykleitos ' school lasted for at least three generations, but it seems to have been most active in the late 4th century and early 3rd century BCE.

His son, Polykleitos the Younger, worked in the 4th century BCE.

In classical Greece the emphasis is not given to the illusive imaginative reality represented by the ideal forms, but to the analogies and the interaction of the members in the whole, a method created by Polykleitos.

Polykleitos in his Canon wrote that beauty consists in the proportion not of the elements ( materials ), but of the parts, that is the interrelation of parts with one another and with the whole.

* Polykleitos, The J. Paul Getty Museum ( link broken )

Ageladas ' fame is enhanced by his having been the instructor of the three great masters, Phidias, Myron, and Polykleitos.

On the other hand Pliny says that Ageladas, with Polykleitos, Phradmon, and Myron, flourished in the 87th Olympiad.

The Roman writers Pliny and Pausanias noted the names of about twenty sculptors in Polykleitos ' school, defined by their adherence to his principles of balance and definition.

Skopas and Lysippus are the best-known successors of Polykleitos.

Pliny's remark that Myron's works were numerosior than those of Polycleitus and " more diligent " seem to suggest that they were considered more harmonious in proportions ( numeri ) and at the same time more convincing in their realism: diligentia connoted " attentive care to fine points ", a quality that, in moderation, was characteristic of the best works of art, according to critics in Antiquity.

And in the whole build of the body he was neither too slender nor overweighted with flesh, but perfectly proportioned and, one might say, built in conformity with the canon of Polycleitus ... His skin all over his body was very white, and in his face the white was tempered with red.