"Dem Polyklet das Maß, und Phidias das Eisen gab."

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On the Classical influences on famous Baroque sculptor Lorenzo Mattielli; as quoted by J. J. Winckelmann, Gedanken über die Nachahmung der Griechischen Werke, 2nd ed. (1756) pt. 1, sec. 4 (tr. Henry Fuseli, 1765)