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Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometrae de sym[m]etria partium in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum libri in Latinum conuersi

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 · 1532 · [Nuremberg] : In aedib. viduae Durerianae · 22 pictures

A 1532 Latin edition of Albrecht Dürer's treatise on human proportion, printed in Nuremberg by his widow's press for artists and scholars. The pictures are plain black-line diagrams of male and female figures marked with measurement lines, compass arcs and grids, showing how a body can be built from geometric construction. A designer could draw on them for layouts that overlay construction lines, grids and proportional guides on figures.

Human figure in art · Proportion (Art)

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library