Editing Contrapposto (section)

==Examples==
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File:Etruscan Statuette.jpeg|[[Etruscan art|Etruscan]] statuette, from Italy, 3rd to 1st century BCE, bronze
File:The legendary Venus de Milo in the Louvre, 9 February 2014 cropped.jpg|The ''[[Venus de Milo]]'' depicts an S-curve body shape. Greek, c. 130–100 BCE.
File:Hermes Thrace Istanbul Archaeological Museum.jpg|''[[Hermes]]'' from [[Thrace]], 2nd century
File:'David' by Michelangelo Fir JBU005 denoised.jpg|''[[David (Michelangelo)|David]]'', by [[Michelangelo]], 1501–1504. The shoulders of the figure are seen to angle in one direction, the pelvis in another.
File:Leda and the Swan 1505-1510.jpg|''Leda and the Swan'', copy by [[Cesare da Sesto]] after a lost original by [[Leonardo da Vinci]], 1515–1520, oil on canvas, [[Wilton House]], England.
File:DP-32692-001.jpg|[[Statuette of Mercury]], 2nd century AD, modelled on [[Polykleitos]], [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
File:Liberty-from-behind-2024.jpg|[[Statue of Liberty]], 1886, copper on iron framework. Viewed from behind, showing the statue's contrapposto pose
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