The Kroisos Kouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος) is a marble kouros from Anavyssos (Ανάβυσσος) in Attica which functioned as a grave marker for a fallen young warrior named Kroisos (Κροῖσος).[1][2]
^Fred Kleiner (1 January 2013). Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective. Cengage Learning. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-133-95481-1.
^The Anavysos Kouros Alex. Philadelpheus The Annual of the British School at Athens Vol. 36, (1935/1936), pp. 1-4 Published by: British School at Athens Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30096873
The KroisosKouros (Ancient Greek: κοῦρος) is a marble kouros from Anavyssos (Ανάβυσσος) in Attica which functioned as a grave marker for a fallen young...
meters tall. The female sculptural counterpart of the kouros is the kore. The Ancient Greek word kouros (κοῦρος) refers to "youth, boy, especially of noble...
beauty and the smile of the kouros referred to charis, divine grace. The same qualities were recalled to the viewer when the kouros fulfilled the function...
well-being. One of the most famous examples of the archaic smile is the KroisosKouros, and the Peplos Kore is another. By the middle of the Archaic Period...
is made. It is now at Acropolis Museum, Athens (approximate date). KroisosKouros, from a cemetery at Anavysos near Athens, is made. It is now at the...
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(Ανάφλυστος), which has shown significant archaeological findings like KroisosKouros that is exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.The...
Attica known as the Munich Kouros is located in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany, under inventory number 169. The Kouros was acquired by the Glyptothek...
Athens, is made. It is now at Acropolis Museum, Athens. c. 530 BC—KroisosKouros, from a cemetery at Anavysos, near Athens is made. It is now on display...
periods and its stance, which contrasts other archaic kouroi, such as the KroisosKouros, as pointed out by Olga Palagia. Artistic canons of body proportions...
representing deities and sometimes the person buried in a grave, as with the KroisosKouros. They are clearly influenced by Egyptian and Syrian styles, but the...
Portanaccio's roof line. Although its style is reminiscent of the Greek KroisosKouros, having statues on the top of the roof was an original Etruscan idea...
inherited from the Egyptians, and its most important genre, the male nude (the kouros) had a fixed formula: An image of stylized lines that retained from the...
depicted in contemporary eastern Greece. The relief borrows heavily from kouros sculpture. Like kouroi, the relief was used as a grave marker depicting...
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