Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Greek figures

Koros is an ancient Greek statue of a nude male youth standing with the left leg forward and arms at the sides. 

This koros Greek statue is marble kouros from anavyssos in Attica which functioned as a grave maker for a fallen young warrior named kroisos. the free-standing sculpture strides forward with the "archaic smile"playing slightly on his face. The sculpture is dated to c. 540-515 BC and stands 1.95 meters high. 

1 comment:

  1. Hi McKay...good start, but this is actually an example of a HELLENISTIC (i.e. much later) Greek sculpture. Be sure to google "kouros" sculpture to see the more archaic, simplified human forms...:)

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