Contrapposto s un terme itali per a designar l'oposici harmnica de les diferents parts del cos de la figura humana, cosa que proporciona un cert moviment i contribueix a trencar la llei de la frontalitat.

Hermes, de Praxteles

Augusto de Prima Porta, Museus Vaticans

Dorforo de Policleto

El Muchacho de Maratn de Praxteles (bronze)

Efeb de Marat

325-300 aC

Miquel ngel Buonarroti

David

1501-1504

1501-1504

1501-1504

Donatello,1430

David

Venus de Milo

130100 BC

Leda and the Swan, copy by Cesare da Sesto after a lost original by Leonardo da Vinci, 151520, Oil on canvas, Wilton House, England.

Boticelli

Etruscan statuette, from Italy, 3rd to 1st century BCE, bronze

Guerrers de Riace

Rineke Dijkstra 1993