Ancient Greek sculpture
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The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholars
Riders from the Parthenon Frieze, around 440 BC, key examples of Classical Greek sculpture
Jockey of Artemision. Late Hellenistic bronze statue of a mounted jockey, National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Natural marble
Athena in the workshop of a sculptor working on a marble horse, Attic red-figure kylix, 480 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2650)
Kouros
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Kouros is the modern term given to free-standing Ancient Greek sculptures that depict nude male youths. They first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and are prominent in Attica and Boeotia, with
Kroisos Kouros, c. 530 BC
Kleobis and Biton c. 580 BC (Delphi: Archaeological Museum)
Saite sculpture from the Egyptian 26th dynasty, similar in proportion and form to the early kouros type, Louvre
New York Kouros