Della fisonomia dell' huomo

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615, Carlino, Giovanni Giacomo, Novo, Geronimo de, Scarano, Salvatore, Vitale, Costantino · 1610 · In Napoli : Appresso Gio. Giacomo Carlino e Costantino Vitale, ad instanza di Saluatore Scarano · 67 pictures

A 1610 Neapolitan treatise on physiognomy by Giambattista della Porta, printed in Naples by Giovanni Giacomo Carlino and Costantino Vitale for the publisher Salvatore Scarano, setting out how facial features reveal character. Its pictures are small engraved heads in profile and three-quarter view, with cross-hatched shading, showing how a designer might build expressive character studies from simple line and hatching.

Physiognomy -- Early works to 1800

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