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Kouros Figures

Kouros Figures is a type of Archaic Greek statuary that represents the idealized male youth in a rigid, standing pose, distinguished by its formalized anatomy, frontal orientation, and stylistic conventions derived from Egyptian prototypes yet adapted to express nascent Greek naturalism and aristocratic virtue.

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Kouroi

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Publications

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

Kenan T. Erim, Gisela Μ. Α. Richter, Irma A. Richter · The Classical World · 1961 · 59 citations

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The Draped Kouros Type and the Workshop of the Syracuse Youth

Barbara Barletta · American Journal of Archaeology · 1987 · 30 citations

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PROOF?: THE CASE OF THE GETTY KOUROS

Kenneth Lapatin · Source Notes in the History of Art · 2000 · 24 citations

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Kourotrophos: Cults and Representations of the Greek Nursing Deities

Price · 1978 · 17 citations

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The Kouretes and Zeus Kouros: A Study in Pre-Historic Sociology

Jane Ellen Harrison · The Annual of the British School at Athens · 1909 · 15 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. IA
    Irma A. Richter

    1 publications · 59 citations

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  2. PR
    Price

    Prairie View A&M University, United States

    1 publications · 17 citations

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  3. GΜ
    Gisela Μ. Α. Richter

    1 publications · 59 citations

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  4. KL
    Kenneth Lapatin

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  5. KT
    Kenan T. Erim

    New York University, United States

    1 publications · 59 citations

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  1. American Journal of Archaeology

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  2. The Classical World

    1 publications · 59 citations

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  3. Source Notes in the History of Art

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  4. The Annual of the British School at Athens

    1 publications · 15 citations

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