FILE: 39_Spear Bearer or Doryphoros.jpg

TITLE: SCULPTURE - Spear Bearer or Doryphorus - GREECE 450-440 BCE

DESCRIPTION: CLASSICAL PERIOD. By sculptor Polycleitus. Classical Kouros figure, marble copy of bronze original. Originally had bronze spear - prob. stolen or recycled. Polycleitus wrote a set of rules, a CANON, about constructing the ideal human figure. Elongated body = more beautiful.