Contrapposto

Pose of a figure standing at rest, with weight shifted onto one leg, balanced but asymmetrical, with twisting or bending of the body's vertical axis.

Basics Works of Art

Pose of a figure standing at rest, with weight shifted onto one leg, balanced but asymmetrical, with twisting or bending of the body's vertical axis.

Basics Works of Art

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date unknown but likely late 1430s–1440s

1433–35

c. 350 B.C.E.

mid-1st century, before 46 B.C.E.

Greek original c. 450–440 B.C.E.; Roman copy before 79 C.E.

1501–04

1st century C.E.

300–350 C.E.

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