Doryphoros

• Sculptor was Polykleitos, from Argos, contemporary of Pheidias and student of Ageladas.

• Roman copy from Pompeii.

• Naples Museum.

• 2.12 meters in height.

• Date of original 440 BCE.

• One of at least six surviving copies of the piece.

• Doryphoros means “spear carrier.”

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