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The fragments of a marble statue of Diadoumenos (youth trying a fillet around his head) is located in the Met museum in the Roman and Greek exhibition across from Marble statue of a wounded Amazon . The statue stands around 6 feet tall, about the size of an average person and is made out of marble. The Diadoumenos statue was created around ca. A.D. 69–96 by Polykleitos who was an ancient Greek sculptor . He is considered to many as one of the greatest sculptor of the Classical period. One of his many famous sculpture is the bronze male nude known as the Doryphoros . It is from the late Archaic to early Classical Period. Both Polykleitos and the Greeks were thoughtful of the proportion of the human body. They applied genomic ratio to get the proportion and the true anatomy of the human body. Many Greek artists followed one rule where they celebrated the human body by representing it very youthful and in nude. The Diadoumenos statue depicts the Classical Greek pose of contrappo...