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Kouroi and Korai
An Evolution of Sculptural Style
Kouros (Kouroi)
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New York Kouros (600 BCE)
Sounion Kouros (580 BCE)
Kleobis and Biton (580 BCE)
Tanagra Boys (580 BCE)
Anavysos Kouros (530 BCE)
Aristodikos Kouros (510 - 500 BCE)
Kritios Boy (490 - 480 BCE)
NY KOUROS
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NY MMA 32.11.1
1.84 m in height
From Attica
600 BCE
Egyptian grid-design
Attention to patterning
No real anatomy
Sounion
Kouros
• Athens, National Museum
• Restored height 3.05 m
• Found in a pit at the sanctuary
of Poseidon at Sounion
• Like NY Kouros but more
achieved
• Seashell like curls, washboard
stomach, rounder musculature
Design
• Ionic volute ear
• Careful attention to
texture of hair
• Love of geometric
form and symmetrical
patterning
Kleobis and
Biton
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Delphi Museum
Restored height of 1.97 m
580 BCE
Story of their sacrifice in
Herodotus i.31
• Artist’s inscription:
[Poly]medes the Argive
made this.
Boys from
Tanagra
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Athens, National Mus.
From Tanagra
1.47 m in height
Limestone
580 BCE
“Amphialkes put this
up for Dermys and
Kittylos”
Some
Awkwardness
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embrace is seen in
Egyptian couple
statues.
Anavysos
Kouros
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National Mus. 3851
1.94 m in height
530 BCE
“Stay and mourn at the
monument for dead
Kroisos whom violent
Ares destroyed,
fighting in the front
rank.”
Problems with
Hips
• More robustly
modeled
• Struggle with
the weight of
the marble
• Unsuccessful
solution
Aristodikos
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National Museum, Athens
510 - 500 BCE
1.95 m in height
Base inscribed with name
Aristodikos
• More skillfully handled
body masses
Kritios Boy
• Acropolis Museum,
Athens
• 0.86 m in height
• 490 - 480 BCE
• Precursor to the
Classical period
• Shift of weight confidence in body
masses
Sculptor in Bronze?
• Engrave lines
of the hair
• Hollow eyes
characteristic
of bronze
work
• Broken limbs
and head
Archaic Horsemen
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Rampin Rider
550 BCE
Head from the Louvre
Fragments from the
Acropolis circuit wall
Remarkable
join
• Payne saw that this head
from the Louvre joined
the body on the acropolis
• Lace-like carving of the
hair and beard
• Celery crown - Nemean or
Isthmian games.
• Delicacy of features
• Same sculptor as Peplos
Kore?
Persian Rider
• Newly
restored
• 520 BCE
Paint on Archaic Statues
• Encaustic
Paint
• Depth to Flat
Surfaces
• Lost in late
Classical
Period
Kore (Korai)
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Auxerre Kore (640 - 630 BCE)
Nikandre Kore (640 - 630 BCE)
Berlin Kore (570-560 BCE)
Peplos Kore (530 BCE)
Cheramyes Kore (570 - 560 BCE)
Ionic Korai, Acropolis (520 - 500 BCE)
Phrasikleia (540 BCE)
Auxerre Kore
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Louvre 3098
From Crete.
0.65 m in height
640 - 630 BCE
Incision and traces of
painted lines
• Daedalic style
• Large hands and position
suggest adoration.
Nikandre
• Athens, National
Museum
• From Delos
• 640 - 625 BCE
• 1.75 m in height
• Earliest life-sized statue
• Nowhere thicker than 20
cm .
Nikandre
Inscription
• Boustrophedon.
• “Nikandre dedicated
me to the Far Darter,
the Arrow Shooter,
outstanding of women,
daughter of
Deinodikes of Naxos,
sister of Deinomenes,
wife of Phraxos.”
Berlin Kore
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Berlin Antikensammulungen.
1.93 m in height
570 - 560 BCE
Found wrapped in lead in
Keratea, suburb of Athens.
• Crown (polos) of meander
pattern and lotus and bud motif.
• Funerary?
Peplos Kore
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Acropolis Museum, Athens.
1.17 m in height
530 BCE
Peplos over the chiton
Same sculptor as Rampin
head?
Traces of Paint
• Embroidered
dress.
• Colored belt.
• Strands of
hair, irises,
lips all
colored.
• Added
jewelry
pegged in.
Cheramyes Kore
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Louvre 686
1.92 m in height
560 BCE
From Samos
Epiblema, mantle, and
chiton
• Dedication:”Cheramyes
dedicated this statue to
Hera.”
Ionic Korai on the Acropolis
• Acropolis 681:
Antenor Kore
• Acropolis 682
• Acropolis 670
• Acropolis 674
• Acropolis 686:
Euthydikos Kore
Antenor Kore
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Acropolis Museum
2.155 m in height
530 - 520 BCE
“Nearchos the potter
dedicated this to Athens.
Antenor the son of Eumares
made this statue.”
• Nearchos signed pots 757 540 BCE.
• Eyes: rock crystal set in
lead.
Early Chian
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Acropolis 682
530 - 520 BCE
1.82 m high
“most peculiar”
“the less one sees of
the whole, the more of
the detail, the better”
Unusual Chiton
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Acropolis 670
1.15 m high
520 - 510 BCE
Sculptor: same hand
as the Aristodikos
• No himation. Unusual
chiton use.
Advanced Chian Style
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Acropolis 674
H (preserved) 0.92 m
500 BCE
Preliminaries to the
Severe Style.
Euthydikos Kore
• Acropolis 686
• 490 BCE
• Euthydikos, son of
Thaliarchos, dedicated
me.
• Same sculptor as the
Kritios Boy.
Phrasikleia
• Excavated from Merenda (ancient deme site
of Myrrhinous) in 1972.
• Found almost intact with a male kouros.
• Cemetery context, on the road to Athens.
• 1.72 m in height
• 540 BCE
Bridal Garb
• Stephane or crown of lotus buds and
flowers.
• Earrings, necklace, bracelets.
• Embroidered gown.
• Fancy belt.
• Special shoes.
• Iconography of bride.
Inscription
• Fit into previously discovered base (1729).
• Artist’s signature: Aristion of Paros.
• Metrical epitaph:
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“Sema” of Phrasikleia.
I shall be called kore
always, instead of marriage
by the gods that
having been alloted name.