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- Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: [kontrapˈposto]) is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure...
- artful combination of gestures are particularly graceful, with an elegant contraposto twist. The gaze between the exquisite Mother and Child underlines its...
- dei Disegni e delle Stampe shows the figure in a more frontal and less contraposto pose. It was long thought to show Francesco Guardi, a very young soldier...
- ballet positions were influenced by Baroque art, especially the ideal of contraposto in sculpture, where the limbs were arranged "as an active spiral, denying...
- Athena, with a height of 2.35 meters (approximately 8 feet). She stands contraposto and wears a peplos that is open on the right side. She also wears a Corinthian...
- execute punishment on the ****ed. The Vézelay Christ, however, is pictured contraposto with arms wide. He is delivering a message, not exacting punishment....
- be said that while Mannerism had mastered the art of formal strained contraposto and contorsion; Annibale Carracci had depicted dance and joy. Later followers...
- about 2 metres in height, and represents a stevedore in work clothes, in contraposto position. To protect his neck from coal dust and rubbing while carrying...
- club and with his left hand on his hip and his legs in an asymmetric contraposto pose. Typical in Piero's work, this solemn, static, languid, and realistic...
- granite, with the statue cast in bronze. Breckinridge is seen standing contraposto. The state government of Kentucky funded the construction of the monument...