Kroisos Sculpture Analysis

On images of the sculptures of “Kouros” and “Kroisos” it can be distinguish the influence of both Greeks and Egyptians cultures. During the beginning of the movement of naturalism, the little detailed sculptures such as the one of “Kouros” in 600 BCE changed to a “life-size” sculptures with a more realistic and detail figure such as the one of “Kroisos” sculpture of 530 BCE. However, the sculptures of “Kouros” and “Kroisos” present a certain difference based on a purpose, a reflection of an idea, and the overall effects that display these works of art according to the time period. The purpose of these sculptures begins with the influence of the “Egyptian prototypes” over the Greeks stone sculptures that “resemble Egyptian cult statues” such as the “Kouros” sculpture. However, we can predict that there is a different time period between both images in which “Kroisos” sculpture projects a more detail “human figure in a way that was true to nature rather than merely to echo the standard format of their predecessors” such as in “Kouros” sculpture. Therefore, the change of making sculptures originate the naturalism movement. The reflection of ideas that is being communicated through these sculptures are based on the purpose of their particular features that reflects a cultural meaning. For instance, “Kouros” sculpture “freed the …show more content…
Therefore, both have different representations of ideas in which “Kouros” present more of a cultural meaning and “Kroisos” the heroism of soldiers of battle. Thus, the effect that these sculptures displays differ between the one of the other because over time the proportions and shapes were developed progressively making the sculpture body or feature more similar to the human body