Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bucher von menschlicher Proportion durch Albrechten Durer von Nurerberg [sic.] erfunden und beschuben zu nutz allen denen so zu diser kunst lieb tragen

Durer, Albrecht · 1528 · Hieronymus Andreae Formschneider · 197 pictures

A 1528 German treatise by Albrecht Dürer on human proportion, printed in Nuremberg by Hieronymus Andreae Formschneider for artists and students of the craft. The four pictures show a woodcut male figure in front, back, and side views and a profile with numbered measuring lines and marks, set against a faded paper ground. A designer could take from them the clear, systematic construction of the body, with grid-like guide lines and numbered points, as a model for figure drawing or diagrammatic layouts.

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