id: 130360 accession number: 1953.125 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.125 updated: 2020-06-22 09:01:09.403000 Torso of a Kouros, 575–550 BC. Greece, Archaic period, 6th century BC. Marble; overall: 62.5 cm (24 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.125 title: Torso of a Kouros title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 575–550 BC creation date earliest: 575 creation date latest: 550 current location: 102C Greek creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Archaic period, 6th century BC technique: marble department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 62.5 cm (24 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In antiquity, brightly colored paint would probably have rendered this kouros more lifelike. digital description: wall description: Known as a kouros, the ancient Greek word for a youth, this fragmentary statue belongs to a relatively rare type of large-scale stone sculpture made for little more than a century—shortly before 600 BC to soon after 500 BC. A nude youth standing with arms to the sides and one foot slightly advanced, the type probably originated under Egyptian influence, but then developed along entirely Greek lines. Found in sanctuaries as well as cemeteries across the ancient Greek world, kouroi may represent gods—especially Apollo—as well as mortals. Although incomplete, this kouros retains much of its beautifully finished and patterned surface. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Greek Youth in Cleveland," Archaeology, vol. 7.no. 4 (1954). page number: Reproduced and mentioned p. 252 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41663252 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n18 Cahn, H.A. "DER KUROS VON CLEVELAND." Antike Kunst 1, no. 2 (1958): 75-76. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 75-76, pl. 32-33. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41318490 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n44 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n42 Kenfield, John F. "The Question of the Cleveland Kouros." American Journal of Archaeology 78, no. 1 (1974): 70-71. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 70-71, pl. 21. url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/503762 Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo. The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977. page number: pp. 36, 81; pl. 3-4. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 22 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n42 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.125/1953.125_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.125/1953.125_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.125/1953.125_full.tif