Profiles of Kouroi

This article is another in a series exploring ways in which analyses of the proportions of Greek sculpture, based on measurements, can contribute to our understanding of both art and civilization during the archaic period. Z-score profile analysis, a recently developed statistical method, provides a graph or profile of the proportions of a statue. The distinctive pattern of these proportions may be visually examined and compared with the profiles of other statues. Here the method is applied to the same group of kouroi previously studied by non-graphic statistical methods. The profiles emphasize the high degree of individuality characteristic of the earliest statues, and both confirm and extend the observations provided by earlier studies of kouroi. Two broad tendencies in the proportioning of sixth century statues may be recognized, yet most kouroi, as in the previous study, follow a general line of evolution from an adaptation of a foreign canonic model toward an idealized human model

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  Antoine Hermary•Revue archéologique•2021

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