"Famous work of a great contemporary master of Phidias, of Argive Polycletus, is the so-called doryphorus, i.e. the statue of a winning athlete holding a spear in his left hand. In this figure the movement of the trunk is shown as it follows from that of the legs: the body gravitates on the right leg and therefore, precisely as anatomy requires, the side of the right side rises, the shoulder descends, and from this general movement results minor shifts in the intermediate parts of the trunk. No one could describe this attitude as awkward; the figure, although firm, moves freely, articulated, lightly. And with this art can boast of an acquired capital. [...] [Polycletus] was the first to fully satisfy the postulates of anatomical truth. (Emanuel Löwy)"
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