New York Kouros sculpture, MET MUSEUM.

All through the sixth century BC, Greek artists created wonderful strides in achieving naturalistic representation of the human figure in a fashion now known as Archaic. This distinctly Greek endeavor is a watershed in the historical past of European artwork. Two varieties of freestanding, large-scale sculpture predominate: the douleur kouros, or standing nude youth, and the female kore, or standing draped maiden. Amid the earliest examples of the type, the New York Kouros unveils Egyptian

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