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contrapposto
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con·trap·pos·to  (kntr-pst)
n.
The position of a figure in painting or sculpture in which the hips and legs are turned in a different direction from that of the shoulders and head; the twisting of a figure on its own vertical axis.

[Italian, past participle of contrapporre, to set opposite, contrast, from Latin contrpnere : contr-, contra- + pnere, to place; see apo- in Indo-European roots.]

contrapposto [ˌkɒntrəˈpɒstəʊ]
n pl -tos
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) (in the visual arts) a curving or asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure with the shoulders, hips, and legs in different planes
[from Italian, from the past participle of contrapporre, from Latin contra contra- + pōnere to place]


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What he described as the subject matter of these contrapposti is unquestionably "Leonardesque" in character, and specifically of the "grotesque" sort with which we are presently dealing in the more particularized case of Bronzino's "Fraud/Sphinx.
 
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