Spear Bearer

The Spear Bearer (or Doryphoros, which is Greek for "Spear-bearer") is one of the best known Greek sculptures of the classical era in Western Art. This sculpture is also lost. The lost original, which we know to have been bronze, would have been made approximately from 450-40 BCE. The sculpture shows the perfectly harmonious and balanced proportions of the human body in sculpted form. In the surviving Roman marble copies, a marble tree stump is added to support the weight. The scukpture is in the classic contrapposto (one leg seems to be in movement while he is standing on the other).