Kroisos-Kouros
As Kroisos Kouros , also Kouros of Anavyssos is a statue of a young man ( Kouros ) which have in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens will be issued and about the year 530th Is dated. It is considered to be one of the best preserved works of its time.
The kouros has been handed down in fragments and was destroyed again after it was found. It's put back together today. Fractures are found in the hips, arms, and legs, especially the feet and knees. Parts of the left lower leg and feet from the metatarsus . Despite the breaks and missing parts, the statue makes an exceptionally good impression in its preservation. The naked youth shows the normal posture of a kouro: a calm head on a calm upper body, the arms hang motionlessly down the sides of the upper body with clenched fists, the weight rests equally on both feet, the left of which is set in front, the right is slightly set back . (The description, which is sometimes to be read, that the right leg functions as a standing leg , the left as a free leg , is wrong, since these designations only apply to pondered statues of the classical era and later). Despite the canonical representation, the statue still has an unusual dynamic and inner movement, but also majesty and power. It is one of the early works that point the way to later classical art . The muscles are clearly worked out, especially those of the legs and here again especially the quadriceps femoris (above the kneecap), the gastrocnemius muscle (calf) and the adductors . It is noticeable that the muscles on the upper body are far less developed. The hair is held together with a ribbon and gently falls down the back behind the head. As usual with Kouroi, the hair is lavishly designed with many small curls and strands in the shape of small snails. The eyes have the typical almond shape and the mouth also shows the typical " archaic smile ".
The Kroisos-Kouros marked a grave in the necropolis of Anavyssos in Attica , where it was found during illegal excavations in 1937. It was sawed in two and smuggled into Paris . A year later it was returned to Greece and has since been located in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens with inventory number 3851. The Kouros was named after an inscription in Epigrammform that was attached to the middle stage of the pedestal:
ΣΤΕΘΙ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΤΙΡΟΝ ΚΡΟΙΣΟ ΠΑΡΑ ΣΕΜΑ ΘΑΝΟΝΤΟΣ ΗΟΝ ΠΟΤ' ΕΝΙ ΠΡΟΜΑΧΟΙΣ ΟΛΕΣΕ ΘΟΡΟΣ ΑΡΕΣ
Stand and mourn at the monument of the dead Kroisos, which the violent Ares destroyed while fighting in the front row
The dead man was therefore a young man named Kroisos, who had died in a battle. Only the middle part with the inscription remains of the base. The statue made of Parian marble is 1.94 meters high. The Attic work is dated between 540 and 515 BC. BC, most likely around the year 530 BC. BC, dated.
literature
- Nikolaos Kaltsas : Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2002, ISBN 0-89236-686-9 , pp. 58-59.
Web links
- Kouros; so-called Kroisos-Kouros in the Arachne archaeological database