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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