When1: -450
When2: -420
Who: Polyclitus the Older or Polycleitus
What: sculptor
Where: Greece
works\ Doryphorus or Spear Bearer [-450: Greek-Classical marble copy of original Severe-Style bronze statue shows classical male-beauty standard]; Diadumenus or Man Tying on a Fillet or Man Tying on a Headband [-430]; Amazon [-450 to -420: wearing exomis toga]; Hera [-450 to -420: gold and ivory]
Detail: His technique {canon of Polykleitos} {Polykleitos canon} balances shoulder-and-hip tension and relaxation in chiastic balance. He worked in bronze.
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