A celebrated ancient Greek sculpture of a young athlete carrying a spear, created by Polykleitos in the 5th century BCE and considered a masterpiece of classical proportions.
From Greek 'doryphoros' meaning 'spear-bearer' (from 'dory' = spear + 'phoros' = bearer). The famous sculpture depicts an idealized youth, and the name became iconic in art history.
The Doryphoros didn't just depict a beautiful body—it showed perfect mathematical proportions that Polykleitos used to create an ideal formula for human beauty. Renaissance artists studied copies of this lost bronze for over 1,000 years to understand Greek 'perfection.'
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