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Psychedelic Spear-Bearer
Polykleitos (Greek, 480 BC-420 BC) Doryphoros (Spearbearer) of Polykleitos, ca.440 BC
Contrapposto (Italian pronunciation: [kontrapˈposto]) is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". 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 in the axial plane.
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Statue of an athlete
* Eleusis
* 2nd century BCE marble copy. Original was made by Polykleitos (ca. 440 BCE)
* possibly a portrait of Kyniskos (boxer, Olympic winner)
* National Archaeological Museum of Athens
source: G.dallorto, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons
Download scientific diagram | The original image (Doryphoros by Polykleitos) is shown at the centre of the figure. This sculpture obeys to canonical proportion (golden ratio = 1∶1.618). Two modified versions of the same sculpture are presented on its left and right sides. The left image was modified by creating a short legs∶long trunk relation (ratio = 1∶0.74); the right image by creating the opposite relation pattern (ratio = 1∶0.36). All images were used in behavioral testing. The central image (judged-as-beautiful on 100%) and left one (judged-as-ugly on 64%) were employed in the fMRI study. from publication: The Golden Beauty: Brain Response to Classical and Renaissance Sculptures | Is there an objective, biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? Using fMRI technique, we addressed this question by presenting viewers, naïve to art criticism, with images of masterpieces of Classical and... | Sculpture, Beauty and Renaissance | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.
Neuroaesthetic studies have revealed that strong aesthetic preference induces enhanced neural activity in the sensory region corresponding to the modality of a presented stimulus... implicated in aesthetic emotional and reward processing...
From antiquity to the present day, it’s a common view that the contrapposto posture elevates the aesthetic appeal of the artwork. Humans have evolved aesthetics preferences as a result of preferences for sexual and social partners, as well as food and habitat, etc., and these evolved preferences that are rooted in our evolutionary past appear to have engaged and influenced the artists of the Renaissance era as much as today's artists and art appreciators (Di Dio et al., 2007;Swami et al., 2007;Wassiliwizky & Menninghaus, 2021).
The Diadumenos ("diadem-bearer")
Delos, Greece
100 BCE
1.95 meters high
The Diadumenos is the winner of an athletic contest at a games, still nude after the contest and lifting his arms to knot the diadem, a ribbon-band that identifies the winner and which in the bronze original of about 420 BCE would have been represented by a ribbon of bronze. The figure stands in contrapposto with his weight on his right foot, his left knee slightly bent and his head inclined slightly to the right, self-contained, seeming to be lost in thought. Phidias was credited with a statue of a victor at Olympia in the act of tying the fillet around his head; besides Polyclitus, his successors Lysippos and Scopas also created figures of this kind.