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He also made what artists call the 'Canon' or Model Statue, as they draw their artistic outlines from it as from a sort of standard; and he alone of mankind is deemed by means of one work of art to have created the art itself. Pliny the Elder, Natural History
The Doryphoros or Canon, 450-440 BC, Polykleitos (or Polycletus) of Sikyon, 212 cm marble copy from Pompeii (original bronze), now at the Museo Archaeologico, Naples in Italy. Because stone has not the tensile strength of bronze, marble sculptires of bronze copies require supports, usually in the form of tree trunks. and the Doryphoros according to an interpretation by G. D. Grimm. Visit the
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