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 194 Geeek Sculpture. in the workshop of Ageladas. His principal works were statues of athletes ; his celebrated Doryphoros (standard- bearer), of which the museum of Naples contains a sup- posed copy, was called the canon of Polycletus, and served as a model of the beautiful proportions of the human body. Fig. 79.— Head of Juno, after Polycletus. Marble. In the Villa Ludovist, Rome. The colossal chryselephantine image of Juno, for her temple at Argos, by Polycletus — a marble copy of the head of which is in the Villa Ludovisi at Rome (Fig. 79) — was considered his finest work.