Practice question · Multiple choice
Entasis makes a column swell slightly at the middle; contrapposto tilts hips against shoulders. What do the two devices have in common?
Hints
- Ask what a perfectly straight column looks like seen from below.
- Both fix a problem located in the viewer, not in the object.
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B. Both correct for how a viewer perceives, not for what is true
Why
Greek naturalism is not measurement but the appearance of correctness. The stone is made "wrong" so that it looks right, an optical argument, not a structural one.
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