Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and tradition
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Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and tradition
（Wisconsin studies in classics）
University of Wisconsin Press, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The Doryphoros : looking backward / Jeffrey M. Hurwit
- The Canon of Polykleitos and other canons / J.J. Pollitt
- The lure of Philosophy : craft and higher learning in Ancient Greece / Ira S. Mark
- Polykleitos and Hippokratic medicine / Gregory V. Leftwich
- The pose of the Doryphoros / Richard Tobin
- A Roman masterpiece : the Minneapolis Doryphoros / Hugo Meyer
- The replica of Polykleitos' Doryphoros in the Minneapolis institute of art : an archaeological description / C.H. Hallett
- Kopienkritik and the works of Polykleitos / C.H. Hallett
- Head types of the Doryphoros / K.J. Hartswick
- Paene ad exemplum : Polykleitos' other works / Brunilde S. Ridgway
- Polykleitos and the allure of feminine beauty / Angelos Delivorrias
- Reflections of Polykleitos' works on Ancient Coins / Carmen Arnold-Biucchi
- Polykleitan and related sculptures in American collections : recent acquisitions / Carlos A. Picón
- Notes on the reception of the Polykleitan style : Diomedes to Alexander / Andrew Stewart
- The Augustus from Prima Porta and the transformation of the Polykleitan heroic ideal : the rhetoric of art / John Pollini
- Nudity and narrative : observations on the synagogue paintings from Dura-Europos / Warren G. Moon
- Polykles and Polykleitos in the Renaissance : the "Letto di Policreto" / Phyllis Pray Bober
- Winckelmann's history of art and Polyclitus / A.A. Donohue
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Polykleitos of Argos, who flourished between 450 and 420 BC, is one of the most celebrated sculptors of classical Greece. A philosopher and theoretician as well as a sculptor, Polykleitos sought to capture the ideal proportions of the human body, and his work was frequently copied. This illustrated volume of essays by art historians, classical scholars and archaeologists discusses Polykleitos' life and influence, his intellectual and cultural milieu, and his best-known work, the Doryphoros, or "Spearbearer". "Polykleitos, the Doryphoros and Tradition" displays an impressive range of approaches, beginning with commentary on the artistic and philosophical antecedents that influenced Polykleitos' own aesthetic, as well as the role of contemporary Greek anatomical knowledge in his representation of the human form. Many of the essays offer extended analysis and detailed illustration of his surviving sculptures, later copies of his work, and reflections of his style in sculpture, paintings, coins and other art in Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor.
Several essays offer an extended discussion of Polykleitos' original bronze Doryphoros, its pose, its relation to other spearbearer sculptures, and their fine Roman marble copy of it now at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. This is a visually and intellectually exciting work that should appeal to not only specialists but general readers interested in the art of ancient Greece. This volume resulted from a 1989 symposiom held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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