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Kore / Korai

Michael Lahanas

Κόρη

Archaische Griechische Kunst: Die Kore

Part 1

In contrast to the Kouros the Kore (pl. Korai) (Κόρη ) (maiden) is never nude but clothed. This is also the reason why these sculptures look more diverse than the nude Kouroi. A large number of Korai were found in the Acropolis in Athens. Often the Kore is holding some offering to the gods they served.

Systematic studies started only around 1882 on the Acropolis mainly by the Greek archaeologist M. Kavvadias (who supervised the work since 1885). Even if the Turks left the Acropolis almost 50 years earlier parts of the postclassical buildings on the Acropolis had first to be removed.

Orientalizing Period (700-600 BC)

The Nikandre Kore (Νικάνδρη Κόρη) from Delos, c 650 BC, 1.75 m. Inscription found

Nikandre dedicated me to the Far-Shooter of arrows, the excellent daughter of Deinodikes of Naxos, sister of Deinomenes, wife of Phraxos

The Lady of Auxerre (Κυρία της Ωξέρ), Daedalic style, after the legendary Daedalus (the skillful one). Probably from Crete, a limestone statuette of a goddess or maiden. Limestone, height 0.63 m, c. 640-630 BC. The Daedalic art, characterized by its triangular head and flat face. Now at the Louvre, Paris.

A color Reconstruction of The Lady of Auxerre

Lady of Auxerre, Kore, cast at cast gallery at classics dept at University of Cambridge (Source)

Archaic Period (600-480 BC) - Αρχαϊκή πλαστική

Phrasikleia Kore (Φρασίκλεια Κόρη ) by Aristion of Paros; Merenda in Attica, c. 550-540 BC National Archaeological Museum.

Theodorus of Samos made the first self-portrait, in bronze, remarkable for its "similitudo mirabilis" (Pliny 34. 83). This moment may be reflected by the statue of Phrasikleia, who bears undeniably peculiar features, even if the face as a whole cannot yet be regarded as “realistic.” Antonio Corso, The Position of Portraiture in Early Hellenistic Art Criticism.

Phrasikleia with one of her arm included!

"Marker of Phrasikleia

I could be called kore (maiden)

for ever instead of wedded

by the gods thus being named

[Aris]tion of Paros created me"

(Translated by Thomas Sakoulas)

“Phrasikleia holds a lotus at its breast by way of symbol of its continued and eternally unplucked state. Like the words of the inscription, the rosettes below each breast, and the additional lotuses, alternately half-open and closed, that wreathe the maiden's crown signal a blossoming into womanhood even as they affirm that this floraison has yet to occur. Together the different elements cohere in making the metonymic representation a visualization of the maiden in her social role, preserving her at the very threshold of the marriage to which she could once have aspired. ”, Deborah Tarn Steiner

The Peplos Kore (Πέπλος Κόρη) or Peplophoros (Πεπλοφόρος) , c. 530 BC, Acropolis Museum, Athens. The statues were usually painted using the encaustic technique (mixing of colored pigments with wax as a bonding agent and applied on the heated sculpture. The wax was used to seal the stone preventing its erosion. Different color reconstructions of the Peplos Kore. The umbrella like hat is a meniskos and is used as a weather and bird protection (But, if your award is against us, don't fail to have metal covers fashioned for yourselves, like those they place over statues; else, look out! for the day you wear a white tunic all the birds will soil it with their droppings. Aristophanes LEADER OF SECOND SEMI-CHORUS, Birds).

NAMABG-Peplos Kore reconstructed as Artemis

Reconstruction of the polychrome decoration of the Peplos Kore, 530/20 BC, under the features of the Artémis. Studye: Vinzenz Brinkmann. Restoration : Alfons Neubauer, Christoph Bergmann. Gilding: Sylvia Kellner. Painting: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. Original: Acropolis of Athens (Inv. n°679). Copy painted: Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek. "Bunte Götter" exhibition in the version shown in Athens.

Peplos Kore, found 5/6 February 1886 in 4 pieces, put later together, west of the Erechtheion, Parian marble. Missing left lower arm, parts of the right hand, dress. Damaged nose, upper lip, drapery.

It is not agreed who was the inventor of painting in wax and doing pictures in encaustic. Some think Aristides discovered it and Praxiteles later perfected it, but there were encaustic paintings that were considerably older, such as those of Polygnotos. Pliny

The Euthydikos Kore “The sulky kore” ( Κόρη του Ευθυδίκου), marble, from the Athenian Acropolis. Carved by the same artist who made the Kritios Boy, c. 490 BC. Inscription found: Euthydikos, son of Thaliarchos, dedicated me (Base Image of the Kore - Copyright Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athens.)

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chaische Griechische Kunst: Die Kore

Part 2

Euthydikos Kore, Side view

Όμορφη, κι απ' των χρόνων το σκίασμα συλλογισμένη, κάτω απ' τον

σημαφόρο του ήλιου, η Κόρη του Ευθυδίκου δάκρυζε...

ΚΑΤΑΓΩΓΗ ΤΟΥ ΤΟΠΙΟΥ ή ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΕΟΥΣ

part of a Poem of Odysseas Elytis with reference to the Euthydikos Kore

Kore 674

Colored version of the Kore from Chios, c. 520-510 BC

Painted Marble , kore no. 675

(Athens, Acropolis Museum)

Head found E of the Parthenon in 1886, two years later the body was found S of the Parthenon. Parian marble

Missing lower arms , found in three pieces, Green chiton with red/purple border with a pattern, The kore wears a stephane with a red palmette and a lotus pattern. 17 holes on the upper rim were used to include bronze ornaments

There is one reason that color traces were found since some of these sculptures were only a dew decades old when the Persian army entered in Athens (the Athenians left the city) and destroyed the Temples and partly also the sculptures on the Acropolis (Persian debris, "Perserschutt"). The Athenians did not repair the damaged sculptures but buried these where they remained until their discovery in 1885-1890 (part of the debris was found earlier around 1835). Since they were not exposed to the atmosphere, rain etc, part of the original color was preserved.

Kore 680 discovered 1885 on the Acropolis 530/20 BC

Antenor Kore with Ionic chiton and himation, 530-520 BC, Athens, Akropolis Museum Inv. 681

Found 5/6 February 1886 NW of the Erechtheion. Feets and plinth discovered earlier.

Missing nose, right lower arm, parts of the right hand fingers, lower legs.

The Inscription found is

Nearchos anetheken o kerameus ergon aparchin t'Athinaia. Antinor epoiesen o Eumarous to agalma

Kore, Acropolis Museum, Inv 670 Discovered 5/6 Feb, 1886 NW of the Erechtheion. Ionic Chiton

Kore 673

Lyon Kore (maybe Aphrodite or Hera ), c. 540 BC

Kore, Acropolis Museum Inv. 593, Discovered 1887 E of the Erechtheion.

Kore 594

Kore, Acropolis Museum Inv. 615, Red Chiton with green maeander border, yellow ochre hair color.

Kore 672, Kore 685, Kore 677, Kore 676, Kore 671, Kore 684, Kore 678,

Kore, Skyros Archaeological Museum

Korae, Acropolis Museum 1903

The "fleeing kore" from Eleusis early 5th century BC.

Kore (or Berlin Goddess) from Keratea Attica, now in Pergamon Museum Germany

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GREECE - ancient art wasn't black&white

amarildo topalis

Uploaded on Dec 9, 2009

Its a video about ancient art, every statue had colors.

by Amarildo Topalis

duration 07:30 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dixoeGWkWwM

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Painting on Greek Statues 2

murrheather13

Published on Nov 25, 2012

Second attempt to get my video to work for my art history professor.

duration 04:12 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPjFYukyhM

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