The Getty Kouros and other anomalies
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https://doi.org/10.5617/acta.5742Abstract
The kouros purchased by the Getty Museum in 1985 is considered to be a forgery by many scholars, since it shows several stylistic discrepancies. In this article it is suggested that it is an ancient work, but Roman, not Greek. Such a statue could have been set up in an old sanctuary to compete with genuine Archaic statues, or it could have been made for a Roman sanctuary playing host to an older cult, where it would have lent an air of venerability to the precint, perhaps in company with other retrospective sculpture.
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Sande, S. (2017) “The Getty Kouros and other anomalies”, Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, 20(6 N.S.), pp. 51–64. doi: 10.5617/acta.5742.
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