Polyklet und seine Schule; ein Beitrage zur Geschichte der griechischen Plastik
Polyklet und seine Schule is a scholarly art-history study by Arthur Mahler, published in Athen and Leipzig by W. Barth in 1902, examining the fifth-century Greek sculptor Polyclitus and his followers for specialist readers. Its photographs show ancient Greek statues in plain black and white, with standing nude male figures in marble and bronze photographed against neutral backgrounds, plus a close head study. A designer could take from them the idealised contrapposto stance, balanced weight, and classical proportions of Greek figure sculpture.
