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450-420 bce.

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What does the greek sculptor polykleitos statue the spear bearer emphasize?

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The Greeks were the first to make truly free standing sculptures and i suppose you can say the Standing youth/Kouros is the oldest we've found (600 BCE) but then there are also Kroisos (kouros from Anaysos) from 525 BCE, (both of those have unknown artists), the Kritios boy from 480 BCE which is believed to be made my Athenian sculptor Kritios (480 BCE) . Polykleitos wrote his Canon where the head of the body is 1/7th its size and he made Doryphorous