![]() ![]() Stewart, Greek Sculpture, Vol 1, Yale, 1990, p. The master of the mortal rather than the deity, his canon achieved a male body 'powerfully muscled, proportioned with meticulous exactitude, composed around precisely calculated cross-relationships between weight-bearing and free, tense and relaxed, flexed and straight, and finished with painstaking care, it emerges as a paradigm of measured humanity' (A. He is most famous for producing a canon which set out the precise geometry and standards of proportion needed to create the perfect male nude, and to achieve within the statue symmetria (commensurability), the perfect symmetry of all parts of the statue to one another and to the whole. Coming from Argos in the Peloponnesus, his artistic career flourished circa 450-420 B.C., and he founded a workshop in Olympia that was to last for three generations. The Greek 5th Century sculptor Polykleitos is considered, alongside Pheidias, Praxiteles and Myron, to be one of the greatest and most influential bronze sculptors of the High Classical Period. ![]()
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