Polycletus

I thought all at once of a book just published by a poet, a genuine conception of the artist, in the shape of the statue of Polycletus.

The Magic Skin 2007

Thus art first makes rude and ill-shapen figures and afterwards perfects everything with its proper form; and it was for this that the statuary Polycletus said, Then our work is most difficult, when the clay comes to be fashioned by the fingers.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Phidias; Polycletus of Sicyon; Polygnotus, the Thracian; Parrhasius of Ephesus, surnamed Abrodiaitos, or the Beau; and Apelles, the prince of painters?

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

Thus art first makes rude and ill-shapen figures and afterwards perfects everything with its proper form; and it was for this that the statuary Polycletus said, Then our work is most difficult, when the clay comes to be fashioned by the fingers.

Symposiacs 2004

When he destroyed the bad, amongst whom were Helius, Polycletus, Petinus, and

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Polycletus, or feel induced by his pleasure in their poems to wish to be an Anacreon or Philetas or Archilochus.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Emperor Nero; but some think Helius and Polycletus referred to; and others, both here and in the preceding sentence, regard the words as denoting simply the witness borne by Peter and Paul to the truth of the gospel before the rulers of the earth.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

The port which Polycletus bare was great, for he was furnished with no small traine that attended vpon him, so that his presence seemed verie dreadfull to the

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

Herevpon one Polycletus, which sometime had béene a bondman, was sent into Britaine, as a commissioner to surueie the state of the countrie, to reconcile the legat and procurator, & also to pacifie all troubles within the Ile.

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

The finest statue of this divinity was that by Polycletus at Argos.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens