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| Name: |
Krition
Boy |
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| Description: |
Athens,
Akropolis. Athens Akropolis Museum. H. 0.86m. Naked youth, with his
head turned slightly to the right and with a tilt to the hips, his
weight on the left leg, the right leg slightly bent at the knee. The
pose is casual, relaxed, markedly different from the kouroi of the
previous century, heralding a change in perspective for the male nude. |
| Date: |
c. 480 B.C. |
| Discussion: |
The
Krition Boy was so named because of the startling resemblance between
the youth's face and that of the Tyrannicide Harmodious; this group
was executed by Kritios and Nesiotes, and so this youth became known
as the Krition Boy. See Robertson 1981: fig. 71, p. 48; Stewart 1990:
133-5; 42-3, 219-20 (ills.). |
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