From: The Art Bulletin | Date: March 1, 1997| Author: Lapatin, Kenneth D.S. | COPYRIGHT 1997 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 375 pp.; 4 color ills., 430 b/w. $50.00

The Doryphoros of Polykleitos and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite were two of the most famous statues of classical antiquity and remain among the most influential in the history of art. Every museum, it seems, has at least a Polykleitan torso or a Praxitelean figurine. We see these familiar bodies, often only fragments, in bronze and marble as well as terra cotta, in statues and statuettes, o...