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Signed by Apollonius, son of Nestor a Greek sculpture of the first century BC. GThough to be near perfect model of male anatomy. It portrayed either Hercules or Ajax and was much studied by the renaissance artists, including Michelangelo who incorprated the turning pose as Christ in the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel

 

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