The Diadumenos is one of the most famous figural types of the sculptor Polyclitus, who strictly idealized representations of young male athletes in a convincingly naturalistic manner. The Diadumenos is the winner of an athletic contest, still nude after the contest and lifting his arms to knot the diadem, a ribbon-band that identifies the winner and which in the bronze original of about 420 BCE would have been represented by a ribbon of bronze.[The figure stands with his head inclined slightly to the right, self-contained, seeming to be lost in thought.
