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Please answer the following questions fully. Number your responses.

After watching the following video:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance... Links to an external site.

1) Compare the two Greek sculptures in the video. Explain contrapposto in detail.

Then watch:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/early-renaissance1/sculpture-architecture-florence/v/donatello-david-bronze-c-1440s Links to an external site.

2) What is the media and technique were used to create this sculpture? Describe both.

3) What two reasons do art historians argue over this artwork?

4) What is the iconography of Dontalleo's piece of art?

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1. Compare the two Greek sculptures in the video. Explain contrapposto in detail.

Contrapposto is a standing and relaxed pose of a human body. It involves standing
while putting most weight on one leg so that the shoulders and the arm are twisted from the
hips and legs. This shows that the legs alternate the weight. Contrapposto was a key principle
in the development of sculptures, for its form was used to express a psychological disposition
of human body in the wes...


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