contrapposto

Anglisy

Anarana iombonana

contrapposto

ny toeran'ny tarehin'olombelona izay mihodinkodina miala amin'ny làlan'ny loha sy ny soroka ny valahany sy ny tongony, ohatra amin'izany
- The Archaic kouros was always callipygian, the large buttocks more stressed and valued than the face. But the buttocks of the Kritios Boy have a feminine refinement, as erotic as breasts in Venetian painting. The contrapposto flexes one buttock and relaxes the other. The artist imagines them as apple and pear, glowing and compact. – Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadance from to, London; New Haven, Conn., Yale Nota Bene,, 2001, 978-0-300-09127-4, 1990
- The difference can be seen in the two competition reliefs for the doors of the Florence Baptistery by and : Ghiberti (right) offers a relaxed demonstration of his skill, close to the dancing definition of contrapposto, whereas Brunelleschi (left) proffers several tautly knotted contrapposti. – James Elkins, Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis, Psychomachia, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, part 1, 978-0-8047-3023-5, pejy 87, 1999
- The hawkers' athletic contrappostos, intellectual and imaginary rather than plausible, speak of the mind's superiority to the body. – Sean Shesgreen, Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London, Broadsheet Cries and British Commerce, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1, 978-0-7190-6292-6, pejy 36, 2002
- Yes, the difference between the expressive faces and baroque contrappostos of the figures on the Antonine panels and the squat, awkward bodies of the Constantinian frieze is interesting to note, but neither era's relief panels on the Arch are wholly indicative of the visual culture of their respective moments. – Sarah Lepinski; Vanessa Rousseau, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography, Iconography and Imagery between Rome and the Provinces: A Case Study in Domestic Décor, Lea K. Cline; Nathan T. Elkins, New York, N.Y., Oxford University Press, part II (Image and Semantics), 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190850326.001.0001, 978-0-19-085032-6, pejy 203, 2022