| For example, he tells of art experts who examine a purported 6th century B.C. Greek kouros statue and instinctively know it's a fake. |
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| The Getty Museum was offered an ancient Greek marble of a standing youth, a kouros. |
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| In 1993 Federico Zeri, the Italian art historian, resigned as a Getty trustee after it bought a Greek kouros he believed was bogus. |
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| Most dramatic of all are the tall, enigmatically smiling kouros, which are archaic statues of godlike young men. |
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| A redstone kouros from Sounion, this strapping young Amsterdammer, translated into the slenderer grace of the modern graminivore. |
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| Unlike the kouros, the figure is completely clothed, although both have the same rigid stance, arms by sides, and wiglike hair. |
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| From the poise of the kouros to the headlong rush of the Tyrannicides is a natural evolution. |
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| The smiling kouros is the first fully free-standing sculpture in art. |
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| Classical contrapposto ratcheted up the internal inconsistencies of the kouros stance, and Classical movement bet everything on striking and awing the beholder. |
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| They seem to have served a number of functions, perhaps sometimes representing deities and sometimes the person buried in a grave, as with the Kroisos Kouros. |
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