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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.
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 ...
In most cases, kouros statues are depictions of naked male youths with their arms at their sides. Kouroi were created during the Archaic period in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. The Kouroi are the male equivalents of female statues, called Korai. Both the Kouroi at Flerio are unfinished and made of Naxian marble.
Two more unfinished, over-life-size kouroi, cut free from their quarry but with their feet broken off, the Kouroi of Flerio are located at Melanes on Naxos in a village garden. One of these would have been a higher and the other a lower kouros, i.e. one would have stood 5.5 metres high without a plinth and the other would have stood the same ...
Merenda Kouros on display at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.. The Merenda Kouros (NAMA 4890) is a Late Archaic Greek Kouros, created approximately 540-530 B.C., measuring 1.89 meters tall and made of Parian marble.
In fact, like many other kouroi, the pose and stance itself was directly borrowed from Egyptian art, likely explaining its similarity to statues such as the statue of Mentuemhet [a] and the iconography behind the similar stance and posture. [7]
The Getty Kouros. The Getty kouros is an over-life-sized statue in the form of a late archaic Greek kouros. [1] The dolomitic marble sculpture was bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, in 1985 for ten million dollars and first exhibited there in October 1986.
[5] The town of Argos was not known for depicting kouroi, but the statues of these two brothers were built by the enthusiastic Argives as a message to other city-states. [5] Though it is still not confirmed whether these statues were modeled after the legend, the legend does seem [clarification needed] to fit in hand with the time of Herodotus ...