At the beginning of the Archaic Period of ancient Greece, circa 680 B.C.E., several bronze figures of male youths appeared on the artistic landscape and served as the forerunners of later and similar statues known as kouros, based on Egyptian and Mesopotamian figures which were “essentially geomet...

Through the looking glass The human body has been called a work of art. Glorified in the days of the Renaissance by sculptors and artists alike, the human body has always been looked at with awe. In Scott Russell Sanders suggestive essay “Looking at Women” he questions the different views,...