Peter Duggans ‘Artoon’

Peter Duggans ‘Artoon’

But, interestingly (see here), a figure leans contrapposto against a doorway in a relief from Saqqara, now in the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin (ÄM 13297). It dates to the late 18th Dynasty (c. 1320s BC). This kind of pose is often said to have developed in Greek statuary in the 5th century BC.