Head of the Diadumenos type, National Archaeological Museum of Athens

The Diadumenos or (diadem-bearer) is except the Doryphoros and Discophoros the most famous figuric type of Polyclitus and a basic pattern of the ancient Greek scultural art. The Diadumenos is the winner of a concurrence. The figure push up both of the arms in intension to set up the diadem. Pliny the Elder told about Roman marble copies from the Greek original in bronze. The marble copies in the British Museum perhaps are compare the Greek original of Polyclitus, except the hands have been lost. The successors after Polyclitus scholarship Lysippos and Scopas created figures of this kind too. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x1333, 208 KB) Summary Statue dun jeune homme liant ses cheveux (type dit du diadumène), en marbre des îles, trouvé dans lédifice dit Maison du Diadumène à Délos. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x1333, 208 KB) Summary Statue dun jeune homme liant ses cheveux (type dit du diadumène), en marbre des îles, trouvé dans lédifice dit Maison du Diadumène à Délos. ... Façade of the National Archaeological museum of Athens The so-called mask of Agamemnon, one of the best known pieces shown in the museum Jockey of Artemision The National Archaeological museum of Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece. ... The Doryphoros of Polykleitos , an early example of classical contrapposto. ... The Discophoros, also spelled Discophorus, meaning Discus-Bearer is one of the figures in according to the Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus. ... Polykleitos (or Polycletus, Polycleitus, Polyclitus) was a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC. He was of the school of Argos, a contemporary of Pheidias and in the opinion of the Greeks his equal. ... For the span of recorded history starting roughly 5,000-5,500 years ago, see Ancient history. ... An Italian Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA). ... Concurrence or Simultaneity is a legal term, from Western jurisprudence, referring to the simultaneous occurrence of actus reus (bad action) and mens rea (bad mind), which must be present for a crime to have occurred; except in crimes of strict liability. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... Assorted ancient bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, with a tessellated glass roof by Foster and Partners surrounding the original Reading Room. ... Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BC. He was successor of the famous sculptor Polykleitos. ... Scopas (Σκόπας) (c. ...