Polykleitos

Polykleitos of Argos was one of the most admired sculptors of 5th-century BCE Greece, working mainly in bronze. In a treatise called the Canon he set out a system of ideal proportions for the male body, and his Doryphoros, or Spear-Bearer, was taken as its model. The figure's weight rests on one leg, with hips and shoulders tilted in answer, a pattern classical sculpture followed for centuries. No originals survive; his work is known through Roman marble copies.