Reprentation [sic] des diverses figures humaines avec leurs mesures prises sur des antiques = Eigentliche Vorstellung und Proportionen menschlicher Leibes nach dem gerechten Mass der Antiquen

Weigel, Johann Christoph, 1661-1726 · 1700 · [Nuremberg?] : Joh. Christoph Weigel excudit · 12 pictures

Johann Christoph Weigel's 1700 engraved treatise, printed in Nuremberg, gives French and German captions for classical figures measured against antique sculpture, aimed at artists and students of proportion. The four plates show standing male nude figures, some draped, marked with dotted measurement lines, numeric notations and letter codes along the body and beside the pedestal. A designer could draw on the stiff contrapposto poses, the thin hatched outlines, and the measuring grids as a precise diagrammatic device.

Human figure in art · Proportion (Art) · Sculpture, Roman

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