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Anavysos Kouros ['Kroisos' Kouros], front view.
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Title
Anavysos
Kouros
['Kroisos'
Kouros]
,
front
view
.
Date
530 BCE?
Cultural Context
Aegean
Ancient Greek
Greek
European
Western European
Style/Period
Greek (ancient)
Archaic (Greek)
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Statues
Kouroi
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Front views
Men (male humans)
Nudes (representations)
Nudity
Ideal, the
Phallic
Hairstyles
Subject
Sculpture
Men
Nudes
Genitals
Hairstyles
Description
"
Sometime
around
530
BCE
a
young
man
named
Kroisos
died
a
hero's
death
in
battle
, and his
grave
at
Anavysos
, not
far
from
Athens
, was
marked
by a
kouros
statue
. The
inscribed
base
invites
visitors
to
'stay
and
mourn
at the
tomb
of
dead
Kroisos
,
whom
raging
Ares
destroyed
one
day
as he
fought
in the
foremost
ranks.'
The
statue
, with its
distinctive
Archaic
smile
,
is
no
more
a
portrait
of a
specific
youth
than
is
the
New
York
kouros
. But
two
generations
later
,
without
rejecting
the
Egyptian
stance
, the
Greek
sculptor
rendered
the
human
body
in a
far
more
naturalistic
manner
. The
head
is
no
longer
too
large
for the
body
, and the
face
is
more
rounded
, with
swelling
cheeks
replacing
the
flat
planes
of the
earlier
work
. The
long
hair
does
not
form
a
stiff
backdrop
to the
head
but
falls
naturally
over
the
back
.
Rounded
hips
replace
the
V-shaped
ridges
of the
New
York
kouros
.
[…]
Some
of the
original
paint
survives
on the
Kroisos
statue
,
enhancing
the
sense
of
life.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.114)
Material
Marble (rock)
Rock
Stone (rock)
Measurements
Approx. 6' 4" high
Technique
Sculpting
Carving (processes)
Work Type
Sculpture
Kouroi
Statues
Repository
National Archaeological Museum (Athens, Greece)
Source
Kleiner, Fred S., and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. 12th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005. (fig.5-10, p.113)
Rights
Photo credit/reproduced in Kleiner courtesy:© Giovanni Dagli Orti/Corbis.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
512-05.jpg
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