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Kouroi Of Flerio
The Kouros of Flerio is 4.7 metre long statue (Kouros) of white Naxian marble, located in a village garden in , a small village on Naxos, one of the Cycladic islands, in Greece. A second, similar kouros is located in a quarry near Melanes. They each weigh between 5 and 7 tonnes. The largest kouros on Naxos at 10.45 metres long is the Kouros of Apollonas, which weighs 80 tonnes. Description In most cases, kouros statues are depictions of naked male youths with their arms at their sides. Kouroi were created during the Archaic Greece, Archaic period in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. The Kouroi are the male equivalents of female statues, called Kore (sculpture), Korai. Both the Kouroi at Flerio are unfinished and made of Naxian marble. They were not completed with fine details, because their feet broke during transport. Kouros in the garden of Flerio Coordinates: The kouros of Flerio lies in the shade of a rural garden. The figure is unfinished and had been roughly worked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kouros Flerio (Steinbruch) 11
kouros ( grc, κοῦρος, , plural kouroi) is the modern term given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia, with a less frequent presence in many other Ancient Greek territories such as Sicily. 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. The female sculptural counterpart of the kouros is the kore (sculpture), kore. Etymology The Ancient Greek word kouros (κοῦρος) refers to "youth, boy, especially of noble rank." When a pubescent was received into the body of grown men, as a grow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
