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  2. Contrapposto - Wikipedia

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    The statue is a Greek marble original and not a Roman copy. Prior to the introduction of contrapposto, the statues that dominated ancient Greece were the archaic kouros (male) and the kore (female). Contrapposto has been used since the dawn of classical western sculpture.

  3. Sculpture - Wikipedia

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    The very large or "colossal" statue has had an enduring appeal since antiquity; the largest on record at 182 m (597 ft) is the 2018 Indian Statue of Unity. Another grand form of portrait sculpture is the equestrian statue of a rider on horse, which has become rare in recent decades.

  4. Swords to ploughshares - Wikipedia

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    This is the opposite of what Micah says in Micah 4:3 (see below). He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. —

  5. Mephistopheles and Margaretta - Wikipedia

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    Mephistopheles and Margaretta is a 19th-century wooden double sculpture featuring two images carved on opposite sides; it portrays two characters from German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 play Faust. The obverse depicts the demon Mephistopheles, and the reverse depicts a woman, Margaretta (Margaret, or Gretchen). A mirror placed ...

  6. Harmonia - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Harmonia in the Harmony Society gardens in Old Economy Village, Pennsylvania. ... Her Greek opposite is Eris, whose Roman counterpart is Discordia.

  7. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    Complementary antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite but whose meanings do not lie on a continuous spectrum (push, pull). Relational antonyms are word pairs where opposite makes sense only in the context of the relationship between the two meanings (teacher, pupil). These more restricted meanings may not apply in all scholarly ...

  8. Repoussé and chasing - Wikipedia

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    The word repoussé is French and means "pushed up", ultimately from Latin pulsare, which means "to push".Repoussage is the noun to refer to the technique, with repoussé being an adjective referring to a piece to which the technique has been applied (e.g. "repoussé work", "repoussé piece").

  9. Mansplaining - Wikipedia

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    Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". [3] [4] [5] [6]