AN EAST GREEK MARBLE KOUROS
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 550-525 B.C.
AN EAST GREEK MARBLE KOUROS ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 550-525 B.C. Standing with his left leg advanced, the arms originally lowered and likely projecting forward from the elbows, wearing a chiton and a himation, the chiton with crinkly vertical folds visible on the right breast and along the left side, the himation draped over his left shoulder, looped below the right arm, wrapped tightly around his body, and then tossed over his left shoulder, with thick diagonal folds along the upper edge and heavy vertical folds falling from the left shoulder in front and back, the form of his muscular body, especially the pronounced buttocks, visible below the drapery and accented by the broad U-shaped folds of the himation, with beaded tresses of hair falling in back along the shoulders 30 in. (76.2 cm.) high
AN EAST GREEK MARBLE KOUROS
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 550-525 B.C.
AN EAST GREEK MARBLE KOUROS ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 550-525 B.C. Standing with his left leg advanced, the arms originally lowered and likely projecting forward from the elbows, wearing a chiton and a himation, the chiton with crinkly vertical folds visible on the right breast and along the left side, the himation draped over his left shoulder, looped below the right arm, wrapped tightly around his body, and then tossed over his left shoulder, with thick diagonal folds along the upper edge and heavy vertical folds falling from the left shoulder in front and back, the form of his muscular body, especially the pronounced buttocks, visible below the drapery and accented by the broad U-shaped folds of the himation, with beaded tresses of hair falling in back along the shoulders 30 in. (76.2 cm.) high
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