Through the 5th century BCE, Greek sculptors' mastery of anatomy resulted in greater naturalness and more diversified poses. A crucial innovation was contrapposto—the asymmetrical posture of the figure standing with a person leg bearing the body's fat and the other comfortable. An early example of this is Polykleitos' sculpture Doryphoros (c.?440

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