Art 19 Contrapposto
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Contrapposto
Archaic Greek Goddess
C. 650 BC
The Metropolitan Kouros (Greece)
c. 600 BC
A detail of the Metropolitan Kouros:
The Kroisos Youth (Greece)
c. 525 BC
Detail of the Kroisos Youth:
The Kritios Boy (Greece)
480 BC
Differences between the two?
The Riace Warriors (Classical Greece)
c.450 BC
The Riace Warriors
c.450 BC
Michelangelo’s David
(Italian Renaissance)
1501-1504
At attention: weight centered equally between the two legs.
A standing figure in Contrapposto:
Student work:
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