Archaic smile

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title: Archaic smile
text: The archaic smile was used by sculptors in Archaic Greece, especially in the second quarter of the 6th century BCE, possibly to suggest that their subject was alive and infused with a sense of well-being. One of the most famous examples of the archaic smile is the Kroisos Kouros, and the Peplos Kore is another. By the middle of the Archaic Period of ancient Greece, the art that proliferated contained images of people who had the archaic smile, as evidenced by statues found in excavations all acr
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description: Motif in archaic Greek art
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