Category:Contrapposto

Deutsch: Kontrapost

English: Contrapposto is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs.

contrapposto

sculptural disposition of human figure

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hipshot

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Subcategories

This category has the following 40 subcategories, out of 40 total.

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Contrapposto - schemes‎ (5 F)

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C

Claudius as Jupiter (Pio Clementino Museum)‎ (14 F)
Claudius emperor (Louvre, Ma 1231)‎ (17 F)
Contrapposto (lactans)‎ (8 C, 25 F)
Cupid Triumphant by Bertel Thorvaldsen‎ (6 F)

D

Danseres by Willem Verbon‎ (2 C, 1 F)
Michelangelo's David‎ (4 C, 1 P, 151 F)
David by Donatello (bronze, Museo del Bargello)‎ (1 C, 53 F)
Doryphoros from Pompeii (Naples)‎ (26 F)

E

Eros Farnese (Naples)‎ (22 F)

F

Farnese Hermes‎ (4 F)

H

Hagias (Archaeological Museum of Delphi)‎ (21 F)
Hermes Ludovisi‎ (18 F)

K

Kritios Boy‎ (12 F)

L

Lansdowne Heracles (Getty Museum, 70.AA.109)‎ (27 F)
Leda and the Swan by Cesare da Sesto (Wilton House)‎ (4 F)
Louvre MR 261‎ (7 F)
Lucius Verus, inv. 2217‎ (10 F)
Lycian Apollo (Louvre, Ma 428)‎ (11 F)
Lycian Apollo (Louvre, Ma 916)‎ (5 F)

M

Mademoiselle Lange as Venus by Girodet‎ (5 F)
Marcellus as Hermes‎ (19 F)
Mrs. Andrew Reid (George Romney - Kimbell Art Museum)‎ (3 F)

P

Pair of standing nude male figures (Rodin, Metropolitan Museum of Art)‎ (14 F)

R

Rathausmann, Dresden‎ (23 F)

S

La Source by Ingres‎ (1 C, 17 F)
Statue of Hadrian (Olympia)‎ (14 F)
Statue of Hadrian (Vaison-la-Romaine)‎ (6 F)
Statue of Hermes (GL 300)‎ (4 F)

T

The Singer by Edward Onslow Ford‎ (1 C, 72 F)
Tiberius emperor (Louvre, Ma 1248)‎ (3 F)
Torso of Young Dionysos (Palatino)‎ (5 F)

V

Venus (Roman Anton Boos, Gardens of Nymphenburg Palace)‎ (15 F)
Venus Genitrix statue types‎ (8 C, 25 F)
Venus with Apple by Bertel Thorvaldsen‎ (2 C, 22 F)
Videos of contrapposto‎ (1 C, 2 F)

W

William IV in Uniform of Admiral (Martin Archer Shee - National Portrait Gallery, NPG 2199)‎ (4 F)

Media in category "Contrapposto"

The following 65 files are in this category, out of 65 total.

'David' by Michelangelo FI Acca JBU 119.jpg 3,888 × 5,184; 5.23 MB
Johann Zoffany - Kaiser Franz I. (II.) (1768-1835) im Alter von sieben Jahren.jpg 1,052 × 1,444; 446 KB
1993-1994-Giardino Giusti (Verona)-testo e photo Paolo Villa-nB06 Cortile-Statua di Apollo e fontana con testa di mostro marino - Arte Manierista - parete di rampicanti, viole gialle, ghiaia, Kodak EktachromeElite 100 5045 EB 100.jpg 3,704 × 5,608; 5.9 MB
1993-1994-Giardino Giusti (Verona)-testo e photo Paolo Villa-nB08 Cortile-Statua di Apollo - scultura Arte Manierista - parete di rampicanti - Kodak EktachromeElite 100 5045 EB 100.jpg 3,864 × 5,684; 4.8 MB
1993-1994-Giardino Giusti (Verona)-testo e photo Paolo Villa-nB09 Cortile -Statua di Atena o Minerva - scultura Arte Manierista - parete di rampicanti - Kodak EktachromeElite 100 5045 EB 100.jpg 3,771 × 5,655; 5.28 MB
Alonso Sánchez Coello - Don Juan de Austria a los catorce años - c 1560.JPG 1,840 × 3,744; 2.78 MB
Altes Museum - Antikensammlung 058.JPG 2,426 × 3,962; 6.64 MB
Anacreon monte calvo.jpg 1,000 × 2,054; 784 KB
Ancient Roman marble statue of a dioscouros-Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek.jpg 1,470 × 3,068; 1.09 MB
Anzio Apollo Massimo.jpg 750 × 1,400; 611 KB
Aphrodite, Roman copy of Greek work, Hermitage Museum..JPG 1,482 × 2,866; 1.08 MB
Apollo choiseul pushkin.jpg 430 × 963; 312 KB
Apollo. Roman statue.jpg 375 × 500; 89 KB
Apolo bronce - Termes (M.A.N. Madrid) 01.jpg 925 × 2,837; 995 KB
Apoxyomenos01 pushkin bb.jpg 607 × 1,002; 187 KB
Ares villa Hadriana.jpg 289 × 533; 51 KB
Bouguereau, Etude de nu pour Vénus, 1865 (5590353834).jpg 969 × 1,567; 626 KB
Charles Howard Hodges - Louis Napoleon 001.JPG 1,167 × 1,788; 649 KB
Dantan 1875.jpg 342 × 430; 23 KB
De-Kontrapost.ogg 2.0 s; 21 KB
Dioskouros Louvre Ma1822.jpg 1,800 × 4,275; 4.79 MB
Dioskouros.jpg 550 × 1,556; 376 KB
Dioskuros, Roman 2nd century CE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (2) (36023838700).jpg 3,717 × 5,952; 8 MB
Doryphoros MAN Napoli Inv6011 (Policleto - Doriforo - fondo trasparente).png 2,050 × 4,100; 32.12 MB
Drusus maior Pompeii.jpg 343 × 566; 43 KB
Durer, adamo ed eva ad acquerello.jpg 11,205 × 13,537; 51.79 MB
Albrecht Dürer - Onuphrius - Kunsthalle Bremen.jpg 776 × 2,296; 239 KB
Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916) - 1883 ca. - Autoritratto con John Laurie Wallace.jpg 3,076 × 3,865; 2.91 MB
Etruscan Statuette.jpeg 1,432 × 2,592; 950 KB
Florence - David by Donatello (cropped).jpg 355 × 346; 47 KB
Florence - David by Donatello.jpg 1,066 × 1,600; 336 KB
Hermes di Prassitele, at Olimpia, front 2.jpg 1,075 × 1,838; 951 KB
Hermes di Prassitele, at Olimpia, front.jpg 1,075 × 1,838; 683 KB
Hermes Thrace Istanbul Archaeological Museum.jpg 1,144 × 2,228; 1.71 MB
Hermes Thrace.jpg 1,195 × 2,415; 1.65 MB
Idolino pushkin.jpg 1,726 × 2,949; 1,013 KB
Jansson Naken.jpg 266 × 600; 71 KB
Júpiter Tonante (Museo del Prado E-5) 01a.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 140 KB
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna June 2006 060.jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 1,011 KB
Leda and the Swan 1510-1515.jpg 801 × 1,085; 141 KB
LouisBonaparte Holland.jpg 4,026 × 6,134; 1.78 MB
Marcellus or Drusus major Statue MANN 8044.png 2,680 × 4,384; 6.23 MB
Marmorstatuette des Hercules — Exponat in der Archäologischen Staatssammlung München.jpg 240 × 500; 107 KB
Milton a Poem copy D 1818 Library of Congress object 1.jpg 1,384 × 1,964; 770 KB
NAMA Hermès d'Atalante.jpg 800 × 1,498; 315 KB
Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek - Dioskure 1.jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 1.34 MB
Palazzo vecchio, salone dei 500 statua romana 12.JPG 1,536 × 2,048; 544 KB
PompeoMagno.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 495 KB
Priestess of isis.jpg 447 × 800; 117 KB
Ptolemaic ruler Louvre Ma4484.jpg 1,600 × 3,650; 3.68 MB
RGM 061.jpg 1,161 × 1,789; 997 KB
RGM 078.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 621 KB
Richelieu Apollo Louvre Ma614.jpg 1,500 × 3,550; 2.9 MB
Réflexion.jpg 640 × 480; 32 KB
Satiro versante - Da Prassitele -370-60 aC- - Copia romana cropped.jpg 950 × 1,900; 918 KB
Statua di claudio, 41-54 dc..JPG 1,384 × 2,448; 1.29 MB
Statue-Augustus Detail.jpg 395 × 294; 84 KB
Statue-Augustus Detail2.jpg 396 × 295; 47 KB
Tabla panel derecho retablo de la Virgen de Jerónimo Cosida.jpg 1,375 × 2,013; 1.87 MB
Togato con tesa dell'imperatore claudio, inv. 2221.JPG 1,064 × 2,472; 1.5 MB
TrajanXanten.jpg 1,200 × 1,600; 394 KB
Venus del Pomo (Museo del Prado E-65) 02a.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 163 KB
François-André Vincent - Portrait de Monsieur Bergeret de Grancourt.jpg 746 × 1,000; 170 KB
Young boy as Eros Louvre Ma116.jpg 1,600 × 3,520; 3.31 MB
Статуя адриана (original).jpg 2,304 × 3,072; 1.09 MB

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