Kouroi
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Name (Hebrew)
קורוי
Name (Latin)
Kouroi
Name (Arabic)
كوروي
See Also From tracing topical name
Male nude in art
Sculpture, Greek
See Also From tracing place name
Greece
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q937330
Library of congress:
sh2007007522
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Meyer, Marion. Kore und Kouros, 2007.
- AAT, Sept. 7, 2007(Kouroi; sculptures of the Archaic Greek period depicting standing nude male youths; variant: kouros)
- Grove art online, Sept. 7, 2007(Kouros (Gr.: 'youth'; pl. kouroi); term applied to one of the principal forms of Archaic Greek free-standing sculpture: a nude, beardless male; such figures, which may be of bronze or stone, stand upright with one foot advanced, a pose similar to that of their female counterpart, the kore; typically served either as votive offerings or tomb markers)
- McGraw-Hill art(Kouros type; type of standing youth in Greek sculpture)