 Kritios Boy

The marble Kritios Boy or Kritian Boy belongs to the Early Classical period of ancient Greek sculpture.It is the first statue from classical antiquity known to use contrapposto; Kenneth Clark called it "the first beautiful nude in art" It is possible, even likely, that earlier Bronze statues had used the technique, but if they did, they have not survived and Susan Woodford has speculated that the statue is a copy of a Bronze original.