Kritios Boy Analysis

This old kingdom statuette is called The Standing Man and stand about three feet tall. As you can see his body is connected to a block of stone to give the piece stability, and reduce the risk of his limbs cracking off. They also probably did this because artists weren't as skilled to create free-standing sculptures without anything supporting parts of it. One of the most promenade factors that is shown in this is the stance. His body is made with less anatomical mistakes than previous arts, but at the same time is still a bit ridged in the upper half. His legs show a large stride and this was done with many other works of Egyptian art. His proportions are out of scale in some parts such as his feet and neck but improvement is definitely being used. I can compare this piece with the Kritios Boy we learned in class right after Egyptian art. These two are from entirely different time periods, but share many things such as stance, mediums, and artists. As you can notice from the Egyptian statuette the figures posing in a way where his stride is noticeably wider where in the Kritios boy, even though his leg is missing you can tell he shared the same stance. They were
I can infer this because the headband he is wearing was worn usually by athletes or by ones that compete in the olympics. This head is made out of marble but is a copy of a Greek bronze statue. This statue was once a full scale life sized figure because it has a rectangular support in his curly hair. This suggests that his arm was maybe resting on his head . He looks to be very youthful from the perfection of his skin, idealized facial structure, and the tightly curled hair. Since this is an athlete, the statue was probably owned by an athlete, or maybe by whom it is representing. We don't know exactly who this is supposed to be or who created it but what we know is that it was from the Antonine period and may have been given as a prize for