The academic pose canon, free: standing contrapposto, seated and reclining figures held the way an atelier would set them. Built for sustained study rather than speed — measurement, structure and the slow business of drawing form.
Before there were gesture timers there were academies, and the academies drew a fairly small set of poses over and over for several hundred years. There is a reason those poses persisted. They are arranged to make structure legible: weight resolved onto one leg, the spine given a readable curve, the figure turned so that near and far sides can be compared. Classic Nude Female works from that tradition. The classical pose canon
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