Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Sounion Kouros is an early archaic Greek statue of a naked young man or kouros (Ancient Greek κοῦρος, plural kouroi) carved in marble from the island of Naxos around 600 BCE. It is one of the earliest examples that scholars have of the kouros-type [ 1 ] which functioned as votive offerings to gods or demi-gods, and were dedicated to ...
The right arm of the goddess and the upper part of the head, as well as the legs and the left arm of Eros, had to be reattached as they were broken off. Eros's right arm is missing. Pan's right leg and horns also had to be reattached. Three fingers of Aphrodite's left hand and the middle finger of her right hand were supplemented with plaster.
The Ancient Greek word kouros (κοῦρος) refers to "youth, boy, especially of noble rank."[5] When a pubescent was received into the body of grown men, as a grown Kouros, he could enter the initiation fest of the brotherhood (phratry, φρατρία).
The Phrasikleia and the Attic korai are the most well-preserved statues in existence from the 6th century BCE. They represent a type of Archaic female statue intended specifically for funerary use. [2] The Phrasikleia Kore is a Parian marble statue that features prominent polychromy [2] as seen in the hair and the dress.
The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: Archaic Greek sculpture (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480 ...
Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer - a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the 6 ...
Their dimensions vary from small statues to giants such as the kouroi of Delos and Samos, and the unfinished colossi of Naxos, the largest of which reach nearly 10 m. Their usual size, however, is the human size or a little smaller. [31] They served various functions, such as cult statues, ex-votos, monuments celebrating athletes, and funeral ...
Authorities in Mexico have slapped a “closure” order on a 10-foot-tall (3-meter) aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon that was erected in May in the Gulf of Mexico just off the ...