Polyclitus of Argos

Greek sculptor. Several copies of his figures of male athletes exist, such as the Doryphoros/Youth with Javelin (Museo Nazionale, Uffizi, and the Vatican Museum), and the Diskophoros/Youth with a Discus (Louvre). He was a pupil of the sculptor Ageladas of Argos, and probably a late contemporary of Phidias and Myron.

The many copies of Polyclitus' works clearly show his preoccupation with contrasting movements in the different parts of the body, and also with proportion, a subject to which he devoted a theoretical work, The Canon. Other works by Polyclitus (now lost) include Hercules and Wounded Amazon.