Sculpture by Polykleitos of a youth tying his headband
The Athens example, with the quiver in view. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Height: 1.95 metres (6 feet 4 inches)Reconstruction, in a patinated cast at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow
The Diadumenos ("diadem-bearer"), together with the Doryphoros (spear bearer), are two of the most famous figural types of the sculptor Polyclitus, forming a basic pattern of Ancient Greek sculpture that all present strictly idealized representations of young male athletes in a convincingly naturalistic manner.
The Diadumenos is the winner of an athletic contest at a games, still nude after the contest and lifting his arms to knot the diadem, a ribbon-band that identifies the winner and which in the bronze original of about 420 BCE would have been represented by a ribbon of bronze.[1] The figure stands in contrapposto with his weight on his right foot, his left knee slightly bent and his head inclined slightly to the right, self-contained, seeming to be lost in thought. Phidias was credited with a statue of a victor at Olympia in the act of tying the fillet around his head; besides Polyclitus, his successors Lysippos and Scopas also created figures of this kind.
^In Hellenistic times the diadem became a symbol of royalty; in the Polyclitan Diadumenos, however, the action is still a simple tying-on of the winner's headband.
Herakles, Diadumenos. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1623-7 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diadumenos. 3D model of the Louvre's Diadumenos torso via...
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later reappointed. Polyclitus completes one of his greatest statues, the Diadumenos (Diadem-bearer). Approximate date – Sophocles' drama Oedipus Rex is first...
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