Kouros at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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This is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figured carved in Attica. The rigid stance, with the left leg forward and the 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, almost abstract, geometric forms predominate; and anatomical details are rendered in beautiful, analogous patterns. The statue marked the grave of a young Athenian aristocrat. This marble statue of a kouros (youth) is originally Greek from the Attic style, ca. 590-580 B.C. Said to be from Attica. 

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe.

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