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Head of the Doryphorus   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Copy after Polykleitos (Greek, active 460-415 BC)
Title
Head of the Doryphorus
Description
English: Polyclitus of Argos attempted to depict the High Classical ideal of human form in his famous "Doryphorus" (Spear-bearer) statue. In his treatise, entitled "Canon," he wrote of achieving this ideal through perfect balance and proportion among the parts of the body. The statue may have been intended to portray Achilles setting off for the Trojan War. This copy follows, but does not imitate exactly, the structure and symmetry of the head of the original "Doryphorus."
Date Original: ca. 450 BC; Roman copy: 1st century BC-AD 4th century (Classical-Roman)
Medium marble
medium QS:P186,Q40861
Dimensions 27.5 × 23 × 24 cm (10.8 × 9 × 9.4 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
23.225
Place of creation Roman Empire
Object history
  • Villa Borghese (?)
  • Stefano Bardini, Florence, before 1898 [mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Bardini Sale, American Art Association, New York, April 1918
  • William Boyce Thompson, Yonkers, 1918, by purchase
  • Elizabeth Seton College, Yonkers, [date of acquisition unknown] by bequest
  • Mr. and Mrs. James E. LePere, New York, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase
  • 1968: given to Walters Art Museum
Exhibition history In Search of Ancient Treasure: 40 Years of Collecting. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1978.
Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James E. LePere, 1968
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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