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contrapposto

chiasmos

ξηιασμος



a term taken from Italian Renaissance art to refer to the composition of statues whereby parts of the statue diagonally opposed to each other naturally work together simultaneously (e.g. if the left hip is raised, the right shoulder is raised accordingly). Polykleitos' Doryphoros is taken to exemplify classical contrapposto


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