a statue of a standing nude youth that did not represent any one individual youth but the idea of youth
Statues of the Archaic period that were symmetrical stiff standing males, the female representations were called Kore.
Any male sculpture from the Archaic period.
statue of a nude standing youth, common in the Greek Archaic period
(pl. kouroi): Greek for male youth; refers to the type of statue representing a nude male youth [image1] [image2] [image3
A kouros (plural kouroi) is a statue of a male youth, dating from the Archaic Period of Greek sculpture (about 650 BC to about 500 BC). The earliest kouroi were made of wood and have not survived, but by the seventh century the Greeks had learned from the Egyptians the art of carving stone with iron tools, and were making kouroi from stone, particularly marble from the islands of Paros and Samos. Modern art historians have used the word to refer to this specific type of male nude statue since the 1890s.