Kouroi: Archaic a Study of the Development of the Kouros Type in Greek Sculpture: Archaic Greek Youths - Hardcover

Kouroi: Archaic Greek Youths: A Study of the Development of the Kouros Type in Greek Sculpture

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Gerard Mackworth-Young (photos) (illustrator). Hacker Art Books New Yor-1988. 365 pp. Bright tight sharp corners. No extraneous marks No jacket- As Issued. A kouros (Ancient Greek: plural kouroi) free-standing life size or taller, ancient Greek sculptures, that first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths. "In Ancient Greek kouros means "youth, boy, especially of noble rank". 365 pp.; 656 b/w illustrations in section; Includes a museum index and list of Kouroi with inscriptions, concordance and general index. One hundred and seventy are photos by Gerard Mackworth-Young. Although Kouroi have been found in many ancient Greek territories, they were especially prominent in Attica and Boiotia. The term kouros was first proposed for what were previously thought to be depictions of Apollo by V. I. Leonardos in 1895 in relation to the youth from Keratea, and adopted by Henri Lechat as a generic term for the standing male figure in 1904.Such statues are found across the Greek-speaking world; the preponderance of these were found in sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoion, Boeotia, alone.These free-standing sculptures were typically marble, but the form is also rendered in limestone, wood, bronze, ivory and terracotta. They are typically life-sized, though early colossal examples are up to 3 meters tall.". Artikel-Nr. 2366

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