Archaic Greece · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 253370
Marble Statue of a Kouros
Unknown Greek sculptor, ca. 590–580 BCE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Fletcher Fund, 1932. The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain
- Artist
- Unknown Greek sculptor
- Date
- ca. 590–580 BCE
- Medium
- Naxian marble
- Dimensions
- 194.6 × 51.6 × 63.2 cm
- Era
- Archaic Greece
Why it matters
The frontal pose, advanced left foot, and patterned anatomy of this Attic youth reveal how Greek sculptors transformed inherited conventions into a new study of the freestanding human body.