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  2. Kouros - Wikipedia

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    Kouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος, pronounced, plural kouroi) is the modern term [a] given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia, with a less frequent presence in many other Ancient Greek territories such as Sicily.

  3. Classical Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The sculpture of Classical Greece developed an aesthetic that combined idealistic values with a faithful representation of nature, while avoiding overly realistic characterization and the portrayal of emotional extremes, generally maintaining a formal atmosphere of balance and harmony.

  4. Ancient Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    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: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323 BC ...

  5. Palaikastro Kouros - Wikipedia

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    The Palaikastro Kouros (Greek: Κούρος του Παλαίκαστρου) is a chryselephantine statuette of a male youth excavated in stages in the modern-day town of Palaikastro on the Greek island of Crete. It has been dated to the Late Minoan 1B period in the mid-15th century BC, during the Bronze Age.

  6. Kritios Boy - Wikipedia

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    Kritios Boy.Marble, c. 480 BC. Acropolis Museum, Athens.. The marble Kritios Boy or Kritian Boy belongs to the Early Classical period of ancient Greek sculpture.It is the first statue from classical antiquity known to use contrapposto; [1] Kenneth Clark called it "the first beautiful nude in art" [2] The Kritios Boy is thus named because it is attributed, on slender evidence, [2] to Kritios ...

  7. Category:Sculptures of men in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Sculptures of men in Greece" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  8. Kleobis and Biton - Wikipedia

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    The earliest depiction of kouros statues can be found in Egyptian culture, where the style of the sculpture shows stability, by being depicted by a single viewpoint in the front. Here, the two sculptures can be seen with a foot movement, to imply movement, with idealized features, from the oval eyes to the fist clenched on each side of their ...

  9. Diadumenos - Wikipedia

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    A mark of the continuing artistic value placed on the Diadumenos type in the modern era, once it had been reconnected with Polyclitus in 1878, may be drawn from the facts that a copy was among the sculptures ranged on the roof of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, when it was completed in 1889, [8] and that the Esquiline Venus has sometimes been interpreted as a female version of the ...

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