1. G • Gesture is an important body sign used effectively by
artists of all the times to represent the psychological
E state of mind of the figures.
• Some time gestures are responses to a specific
S event or situation in the painting
• Gestures were also used as symbolic meaning
T • The gestures were of several types and used to
communicate specific message
U • For example, Gesture of shyness, aggression,
anguish, sadness, fear, loneliness, depression,
R Curiosity, surprise, shock, lust, desire etc are those
from internal and instinctive state of mind.
E • Victory sign, welcome sign, Supremacy,
subordinence, Heroic, grace etc gestures appears
S from external factors like tradition, cultural and social
environments.

2. Lysippos Apoxyomenos (Scraper) Sleeping Satyr (Barberini Faun)
ca. 330 B.C.E. Roman marble copy after a ca. 230-200 B.C.E.
bronze original marble
81 in. high 85 in. high

3. “John the Baptist Preaching to a Levite and
a Pharisee, 1506-11”
"Venus Pucica" - 3rd Century

4. Sandro Botticelli
Portrait of a Youth
early 1480s
tempera on panel
16 x 12 in.

5. Joseph Wright of Derby - Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump / 1768

6. William Hogarth -Breakfast Scene from Marriage à la Mode / ca. 1745

7. Angelica Kauffmann - Mother of the Gracchi / ca. 1785

8. David - "Battle of the Sabine Women"