Doryphorus

In line with the strong influence of Pythagorean philosophy which affected his speculation and in view of his own defence of the Doryphorus, Plato upheld what he believed to be the Egyptian practice of fixing and exhibiting patterns in their temples which “no painter or artist is allowed to innovate upon ... or to leave the traditional forms and invent new ones.”

CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968

He gave to the divine and heroic character in painting, what Polycletus had given to the human in sculpture by his Doryphorus, a canon of proportion.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

After he had vented his furious passion upon them, he finished the play in the embraces of his freedman Doryphorus

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

His great shoulders looked more than ever like those of the stone Doryphorus, who stands in his perfect, reposeful strength in the Louvre, and had often made her wonder if such men died forever with the youth of Greece.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Doryphorus of Polycletes, and especially on that of the Cow of Myron and of the bull that carried Europa.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

Doryphorus of Polyclitus, is athletic without exaggeration, and is modeled with faultless skill.

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

His Doryphorus, a bronze figure of a young athlete holding a spear such as was used in the pentathlon (cf. page 168), exists in numerous copies.

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

The head of the Doryphorus, as seen from the side, is more nearly rectangular than the usual Attic heads of the period, e.g., in the Parthenon frieze.

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

A strong likeness to the Doryphorus exists in a whole series of youthful athletes, which are therefore with probability traced to

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

The attitude of the figure, especially the legs, is very like that of the Doryphorus, and the face is thought by many to show a family likeness to his.

A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886