kouroi and korai
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Kouroi and Korai. An Evolution of Sculptural Style. Kouros (Kouroi). 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. NY MMA 32.11.1 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Kouroi and Korai
An Evolution of Sculptural Style
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Kouros (Kouroi)
• 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)
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NY KOUROS
• NY MMA 32.11.1• 1.84 m in height• From Attica• 600 BCE• Egyptian grid-design• Attention to patterning• No real anatomy
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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
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Design
• Ionic volute ear• Careful attention to
texture of hair• Love of geometric
form and symmetrical patterning
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Kleobis and Biton
• 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.
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Boys from Tanagra
• Athens, National Mus.• From Tanagra • 1.47 m in height• Limestone• 580 BCE• “Amphialkes put this
up for Dermys and Kittylos”
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Some Awkwardness
• Awkwardness of the embrace is seen in Egyptian couple statues.
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Anavysos Kouros
• 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.”
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Problems with Hips
• More robustly modeled
• Struggle with the weight of the marble
• Unsuccessful solution
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Aristodikos
• National Museum, Athens• 510 - 500 BCE• 1.95 m in height• Base inscribed with name
Aristodikos• More skillfully handled
body masses
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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
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Sculptor in Bronze?
• Engrave lines of the hair
• Hollow eyes characteristic of bronze work
• Broken limbs and head
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Archaic Horsemen
• Rampin Rider• 550 BCE• Head from the Louvre• Fragments from the
Acropolis circuit wall
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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?
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Persian Rider
• Newly restored
• 520 BCE
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Paint on Archaic Statues
• Encaustic Paint
• Depth to Flat Surfaces
• Lost in late Classical Period
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Kore (Korai)
• 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)
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Auxerre Kore
• 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.
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Nikandre
• Athens, National Museum
• From Delos• 640 - 625 BCE• 1.75 m in height• Earliest life-sized statue• Nowhere thicker than 20
cm .
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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.”
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Berlin Kore
• 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?
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Peplos Kore• Acropolis Museum, Athens. • 1.17 m in height• 530 BCE• Peplos over the chiton• Same sculptor as Rampin
head?
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Traces of Paint• Embroidered
dress. • Colored belt. • Strands of
hair, irises, lips all colored.
• Added jewelry pegged in.
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Cheramyes Kore
• Louvre 686• 1.92 m in height• 560 BCE• From Samos• Epiblema, mantle, and
chiton• Dedication:”Cheramyes
dedicated this statue to Hera.”
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Ionic Korai on the Acropolis
• Acropolis 681: Antenor Kore
• Acropolis 682• Acropolis 670• Acropolis 674• Acropolis 686:
Euthydikos Kore
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Antenor Kore
• 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.
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Early Chian
• 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”
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Unusual Chiton Style
• Acropolis 670• 1.15 m high• 520 - 510 BCE• Sculptor: same hand
as the Aristodikos • No himation. Unusual
chiton use.
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Advanced Chian Style
• Acropolis 674• H (preserved) 0.92 m • 500 BCE• Preliminaries to the
Severe Style.
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Euthydikos Kore
• Acropolis 686• 490 BCE• Euthydikos, son of
Thaliarchos, dedicated me.
• Same sculptor as the Kritios Boy.
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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
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Bridal Garb
• Stephane or crown of lotus buds and flowers.
• Earrings, necklace, bracelets.
• Embroidered gown.
• Fancy belt.
• Special shoes.
• Iconography of bride.
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Inscription• Fit into previously discovered base (1729).
• Artist’s signature: Aristion of Paros.
• Metrical epitaph: – “Sema” of Phrasikleia. – I shall be called kore– always, instead of marriage– by the gods that – having been alloted name.