__NOTOC__ The so-called Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis is the head of a lost marble statue of a young man (

Kouros 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 ...

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sculpture type) of ca 480 BC, in the

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Inv. 689. The head and part of the pelvis were found in 1923 northeast of the museum site on the

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. It belongs to the late archaic or early classical period ( Severe style). The curly hair points more to the Archaic than the Classical period. It measures 25 cm in the vertical, in the horizontal under the ears 12.5 cm and in the depth 22.8 cm. (Schrader 1939:197). This sculpture could have been created by one of the teachers of

Phidias Phidias or Pheidias (; grc, Φειδίας, ''Pheidias''; 480 – 430 BC) was a Greek sculptor, painter, and architect. His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Phidias also designed the stat ...

Hegias of Athens Hegias or Hegesias of Athens ( grc-gre, Ἡγησίας) was a famous sculptor of Athens, a member of the Late Archaic school of the generation before Pheidias. No surviving work can be securely identified as his, though Pliny mentions a ''Pyrrhus ...

Ageladas Ageladas ( grc-gre, Ἀγελάδας ''Agelā́dās'') or Hagelaedas ( grc-gre, Ἁγελᾴδας ''Hagelā́idās'') was a celebrated Greek (Argive) sculptor, who flourished in the latter part of the 6th and the early part of the 5th century B ...

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. The original blond painting of the curly hair is faded. Only remnants of the paint are visible today.

Gallery

Copy of blond Kouros' head, color rendition believed to have been used by the artist, painted by Dr. Alfons Neubauer of the Glyptothek, Munich File:Blonder Kopf von der Akropolis1.jpg Blonder Kopf von der Akropolis2.jpg File:Blonder Kopf von der Akropolis3.jpg File:Blonder Kopf von der Akropolis4.jpg

Notes

Bibliography

* Hans Schrader: ''Die Archaischen Marmorbildwerke der Akropolis (Textband)''. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1939, pp 197ff. Nr. 302. *

Vinzenz Brinkmann Vinzenz Brinkmann (born 1958 in Göttingen) is a German classical archaeologist. Life Brinkmann grew up in Gauting, southwest of Munich, and studied Classical Archeology in Munich and Athens. In 1987 he earned his doctorate under Volkmar von ...

: ''Die Polychromie der archaischen und frühklassischen Skulptur'' (= ''Studien zur antiken Malerei und Farbgebung.'' Bd. 5). Biering & Brinkmann, München 2003, , Kat. Nr. 110

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