Clariss[imi] pictoris et geometræ Alberti Dureri, De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestib[um] imaginum, : libri duo, cqui priorib[us] De symmetria quondam editis, nunc primum in latinum conversi accesserunt

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574 · 1534 · [Nuremberg] : Impensis viduæ Durerianæ, per Hieronymum Formschneyder Norinbergæ. · 108 pictures

A 1534 Latin treatise on artistic proportion by the German painter Albrecht Dürer, with a translation and preface by Joachim Camerarius, printed in Nuremberg for artists and students of figure drawing. Its pictures are woodcut diagrams of the head in grids and of the standing male figure with measuring lines, showing how to construct a body from fixed proportions; a designer could borrow the gridded construction method for layouts or character sketches.

Proportion (Art) · Figure drawing

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