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Polykleitos and Canon
* Polykleitos of Argos develops a set of rules ( The Canon ) for constructing the ideal human figure ( approximate date ).

Polykleitos and wrote
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.

Polykleitos and ),
* Polykleitos starts making the bronze statue Achilles ( also known as The Spear Bearer or Doryphoros ), which he finishes about ten years later.
Polykleitos ' Doryphoros ( Spear-Bearer ), an early example of classical contrapposto.
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 and is
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.
Finally, this is the germ from which the art of Polykleitos was to grow two or three generations later.
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.
Ageladas ' fame is enhanced by his having been the instructor of the three great masters, Phidias, Myron, and Polykleitos.
The refined detail of Polykleitos ' models for casting executed in clay is revealed in a famous remark repeated in Plutarch's Moralia, that " the work is hardest when the clay is under the fingernail ".
The main-belt asteroid 5982 Polykletus is named after Polykleitos.
Similar to Lysippus, Scopas is in his art a successor of the Classical 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.
The canonic proportions of the male torso established by Polykleitos ossified in Hellenistic and Roman times in the heroic cuirass exemplified by the Augustus of Prima Porta, who wears ceremonial dress armor modelled in relief over an idealized muscular torso which is ostensibly modelled on the Doryphoros.
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.

Polykleitos and with
On the other hand Pliny says that Ageladas, with Polykleitos, Phradmon, and Myron, flourished in the 87th Olympiad.
Polykleitos, along with Phidias, created the Classical Greek style.
Commentators noted his grace and elegance, and the symmetria or coherent balance of his figures, which were leaner than the ideal represented by Polykleitos and with proportionately smaller heads, giving them the impression of greater height.

Polykleitos and one
* Polykleitos completes one of his greatest statues, the Doryphorus ( The Spear Bearer ) ( approximate date ).
The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists, Apelles and Polykleitos.
Further sculptures attributed to Polykleitos are the Discophoros (" Discus-bearer "), Diadumenos (" Youth tying a headband ") and a Hermes at one time placed, according to Pliny, in Lysimachia ( Thrace ).
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 and .
Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.
* Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works Polykleitos of Argos, 16. 72
* Polykleitos, The J. Paul Getty Museum ( link broken )
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.
He was a contemporary, but a somewhat older contemporary, of Pheidias and Polykleitos.
Polykleitos ( or Polyklitos, Polycleitus, Polyclitus ; Greek Πολύκλειτος ); called the Elder, was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early 4th century BCE.
Polykleitos ' Astragalizontes (" Boys Playing at Knuckle-bones ") was claimed by the Emperor Titus and set in a place of honour in his atrium.
Polykleitos and Phidias were of the first generation of Greek sculptors to have a schools of followers.
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.
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.
His son, Polykleitos the Younger, worked in the 4th century BCE.

Canon and wrote
Avicenna, considered among the most influential medical scholars in history, wrote The Canon of Medicine ( 1025 ) and The Book of Healing ( 1027 ), which remained standard textbooks in both Muslim and European universities until the 17th century.
He wrote The Canon of Medicine, considered one of the most famous books in the history of medicine.
He also made a compilation of the works of Galen, and wrote a commentary on the Canon of Medicine ( Qanun fi't-tibb ) of Avicenna ( Ibn Sina ) ( 980-1037 ).
There are claims that he was the Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but according to John Maxson Stillman, who wrote on the history of chemistry, there is no evidence of such a name on the rolls in Germany or Rome and no mention of this name before 1600.
" In 1994, in The Western Canon, Harold Bloom wrote of Finnegans Wake: " aesthetic merit were ever again to center the canon would be as close as our chaos could come to the heights of Shakespeare and Dante ," and in 1998 the Modern Library placed Finnegans Wake seventy-seventh amongst its list of " Top 100 English-language novels of the twentieth century.
Zonaras, commenting on Canon 50, wrote, " Because there are some of the Bishops and clergy who depart from virture and play chess ( zatikron ) or dice or drink to excess, the Rule commands that such shall cease to do so or be excluded ; and if a Bishop or elder or deacon or subdeacon or reader or singer do not cease so to do, he shall be cast out: and if laymen be given to chess-playing and drunkenness, they shall be excluded.
In The Canon of Medicine in 1025 CE, he laid down rules for the experimental use and testing of drugs and wrote a precise guide for practical experimentation in the process of discovering and proving the effectiveness of medical drugs and substances.
Charles Kingsley, Canon of the Church of England, wrote this four years after Marx
In a 2009 retrospective review of the " New Cult Canon ", Scott Tobias wrote " Much like Haynes ' recent I'm Not There, which dissected the various phases of Bob Dylan's life and career by casting six different actors ( including Bale and Cate Blanchett ) as Dylan, Velvet Goldmine doesn't come at glam-rock directly, and both films cause no end of frustration to those who can't get on their wavelength "; " Haynes ' background in semiotics has led some critics to dismiss these films as too academic, but figures like Dylan and Bowie are notoriously elusive, and his effort to access them indirectly, through allusion and representation, pays more dividends than a straightforward biopic ever could.
With Gledhill and James Maurice Wilson ( later Canon of Worcester ), he wrote Handbook of Double Stars in 1879, which became a standard reference work.
During the first 5 years when about 38 camera models were launched that wrote DNG, Adobe software added support for about 21 Canon models, about 20 Nikon models, and about 22 Olympus models.
The time of origin is thus dated at circa 1025 AD, when Avicenna wrote The Canon of Medicine in Persia.
The medieval lawyers also wrote glosses on the medieval texts of Canon law such as the Decretum Gratiani ( around 1140 ), the Liber Extra of Gregory IX ( 1234 ), the Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII ( 1298 ) and later smaller collections of papal decretals, verdicts in letter form sent to papal delegates.
" As critic Reed Woodhouse ( in Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945 — 1995, University of Massachusetts Press, 1998 ), wrote, " What one hears in Delany's sentence is the sound of the gauntlet being thrown down, for he wants to completely reverse the story Brodkey tells: the story, that is, of an ' innocent victim ' who may have played around a little but very long ago and certainly not doing those things.
He wrote an Arabic commentary on the epitome of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine that had been made by Yusuf al-Ilaqi.
In 1912, he wrote the article The Canon and the Law, in which he formulated the principles of analytical realism, or " anti-Cubism ".
Arzani also wrote a handbook of medicine for beginners ( Mizan al-tibb ), a commentary on the Qanunchah by Jaghmini ( a greatly abbreviated version of The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna ); Tibb-i Akbari, composed in 1700CE, which was an expanded version of the Arabic treatise Sharh al-asbab wa-al -‘ alamat by Burhan al-Din Nafis ibn ‘ Iwad al-Kirmani ; a Persian treatise on the illnesses occurring during pregnancy and breast-feeding and the diseases of infants ; and Mujarrabat-i Akbari, a formulary of compound remedies.
Tallis is nicknamed " Tom " or " Father Tom " because of the historical composer Thomas Tallis, who wrote the Tallis Canon.
In 1848 Canon Richard Parkinson, Vicar of St Bees and Principal of the Theological College wrote in his diary: " November 8th., 1848.
Due to this uncertainty, it seems that the compiler of the Abydos king list simply tried to imitate the original figure, whilst the author of the Royal Canon of Turin seems to have been convinced about reading it as the Gardiner-sign A19 and he wrote Semsem with single vowels.

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