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Statue of a kouros (youth), ca. 590–580 B.C.; GreekNaxian marble 

• one of the earliest freestanding marble statues
• depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side following style resembling Egyptian sculptures 
• believed to have served as funerary grave marker for warriors or as dedication in the sanctuary of a god.

 Statue of Herakles seated on a rock,Roman Adaption=1st or 2nd century A.D.

Lost Greek original=4th or early 3rd century B.C.

Marble

• shown resting on a rock with his legs stretched out in front of him with a club under his armpit
• humanistic: Lysippos like in his other works shows a great deal of detail in the muscularity and curves in the body creating a very life sculpture 

Statue of Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head),
 Polykleitos original ca. 430 B.C.ca. 
(Hollow bronze Cast)
Roman copy ca. 69–96 A.D.; 
Marble (Pentelic)

• shown tying fillet((band or ribbon worn around head) after victory in a athletic contest
• Muscle tone and natural curves in body show humanistic aspects Polykleitos desired to create
• Shows Polykleitos's Canon which is a system of proportions making the length of one body part equal another , this was done to make a more human like figure allowing for all the body parts to come together in harmony
• Shown inbetween standing and walking which hints toward the statues movement
• Has a contraposto design where one leg holds a figures full weight and the other leg relaxed. This causes the hips and shoulders to form opposite angles  giving  s-curve to the entire torso.
• archaic smile seen