Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum
Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum is a 1740 collection of engraved plates after classical statues, compiled by Jan de Bisschop and held by Heidelberg University Library, and it was made as a model book for draughtsmen and students learning to draw the figure. The pictures are tall, narrow etchings of standing draped and nude figures shown in full length against plain or lightly hatched grounds, with fine parallel hatching that shapes muscle and cloth. A designer could take from them the classical contrapposto pose, the way loose drapery falls in long folds, and a restrained linear method for modelling form without colour.
