What is the Kouros type?
Correspondingly, what is a Kouros and what was the purpose of a Kouros?
A kouros is a statue of a standing nude youth that did not represent any one individual youth but the idea of youth. Used in Archaic Greece as both a dedication to the gods in sanctuaries and as a grave monument, the standard kouros stood with his left foot forward, arms at his sides, looking straight ahead.
Similarly, it is asked, what is the style of Kouros?
ρος, pronounced [kûːros], plural kouroi) is the modern term given to free-standing ancient Greek sculptures that first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths. The female sculptural counterpart of the kouros is the kore.
Most Kouros statues are between five and seven ancient Greek feet tall, and few are built in monumental scale. The Greek sculptor, by not utilizing a rigid system of measurement, began depicting the parts of the human anatomy in proportions related to one another.