Peplos Kore. The Peplos Kore is a statue of a girl and one of the most well-known examples of Archaic Greek art.
The 118 cm-high high white marble statue was made around 530 BC and originally was colourfully painted. The statue was found, in three pieces, in an 1886 excavation north-west of the Erechtheion on the Athenian Acropolis and is now in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
The Peplos Kore stands at approximately 1.18 m high. It is carved from fine grained Parian marble.
Traces remain of the original paint. The name of the statue comes from the heavy woolen garment worn by the girl, the Dorian peplos, which was no longer actually in fashion when the marble statue was made.
Underneath it, the girl wears a thin chiton which peeps out from the sleeves and hem. Bore holes on the head and shoulders indicate that the statue was decorated with bronze head decorations and shoulder fibulae. The left arm was made of a separate piece of stone and is now lost. The Peplos Kore is ascribed to the Rampin Master who is named for another head, very similar in style, which was in the Rampin Collection and is now on display in the Louvre. In Brinkmann's opinion, this statue type does not depict mortal girls but goddesses. Her posture does not correspond to the late archaic Kore, who steps forward with her left leg, holds her skirt with her left hand and holds fruit in the crook of her right arm. On the Pep
The 118 cm-high high white marble statue was made around 530 BC and originally was colourfully painted. The statue was found, in three pieces, in an 1886 excavation north-west of the Erechtheion on the Athenian Acropolis and is now in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
The Peplos Kore stands at approximately 1.18 m high. It is carved from fine grained Parian marble.
Traces remain of the original paint. The name of the statue comes from the heavy woolen garment worn by the girl, the Dorian peplos, which was no longer actually in fashion when the marble statue was made.
Underneath it, the girl wears a thin chiton which peeps out from the sleeves and hem. Bore holes on the head and shoulders indicate that the statue was decorated with bronze head decorations and shoulder fibulae. The left arm was made of a separate piece of stone and is now lost. The Peplos Kore is ascribed to the Rampin Master who is named for another head, very similar in style, which was in the Rampin Collection and is now on display in the Louvre. In Brinkmann's opinion, this statue type does not depict mortal girls but goddesses. Her posture does not correspond to the late archaic Kore, who steps forward with her left leg, holds her skirt with her left hand and holds fruit in the crook of her right arm. On the Pep
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