Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

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Marble statue of a kouros (youth)

Artist : Anonyme

Date : approx. between 590 and 580 B.C.

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1932)
Fin de la période archaïque

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Archaic Greek Sculpture
Left - Ground Floor - Section 3

Item 13 on 25
Greek Antiquities
Sculpture (Statue)

Area related
Attique (Greece)

Description

This is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in Attica. The rigid stance, with the left leg forward and the arms at the sides, was derived from Egyptian art. The statue marked the grave of a young Athenian aristocrat.

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Museum of Pergamum :
Room

Kuros
Statue of a man
Statue
Période archaïque
Anonyme
approx. from 540 to 530 B.C.