Polykleitos and his sportsmen, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor in bronze of the 5th century BCE. His Greek name was traditionally Latinized Polycletus.

Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity.

Polykleitos sculpted a famous bronze male nude known as the Doryphoros ("Spear Bearer"), which survives in the form of numerous Romanmarble copies. Further sculptures attributed to Polykleitos are the Discophoros ("Discus-bearer"), Diadumenos ("Youth tying a headband")