... their own architecture of stone pillared buildings with mathematical proportion. Their temples reflected their religious beliefs in the gods. These temples were painted and carved decorations made on these made the buildings the wonder of their age. Sculptors carved marble and limestone, modeled clay, and cast works in bronze. Sculptors also worked on gravestones, tombs, and private commissions, where ... they expressed the same idealized vision of human form. Large votive statues were made of plates of hammered ... to be formal & frontal. But over the course, Greek sculptors experime...

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... 76 in. Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1) This kouros is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in Attica. The rigid stance, with the left leg forward and arms at the side, was derived from Egyptian art. The pose provided a clear, simple formula that was used by Greek sculptors throughout the sixth century B.C. In this early figure, geometric, almost abstract forms predominate, and ... person as it did online with the exception of the feeling you get for the details involved in carving this magnificent piece of art. It did not have the realism that later Greek statues ha...

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