The Kouros

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Watch this video on the Greek kouros sculptures, which represented ideas of male beauty. What was new in the development of this art form?


Kouros (youth), Archaic Greek, Attica, ca. 590-580 B.C.E. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

 

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