The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form
The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form

Author: Tom Richardson

Publisher: Tom Richardson

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0982167806

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This guide to the proportions of the human form is a reformatted reproduction of the famous but hard to find work by Johann Gottfried Shadow. It includes images of plates engraved by John Sutcliffe from the English translation, and images of the original German plates. The original was a huge book, each plate was 24" by 19" for this version the large plates were photographed to reproduce them on a single page, but also reproduced in sections so they can be seen as large as possible. It includes an introduction, a history of the study of human proportion and a description of the plates plus the original German plates reproduced on single pages. Schadow based based his work on the pioneering work of the Greek Sculptor Polycletus who both wrote a treatise on human proportion and sculpted a figure to illustrate his work. Polycletus was among the creators of classical Greek sculpture, famous for his naturalism.

Human Proportions for Artists
Human Proportions for Artists

Author: Avard Tennyson Fairbanks

Publisher: Fairbanks Art and Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780972584111

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Human Proportions for Artists is a profusely illustrated reference book. It is intended for colege level students and serious artists. Avard Fairbanks made a proportion study of more than 100 measurements on each of 25 male and female adults. Detailed drawings were made illustrating these dimensions, including front and lateral fine features of the faces. Anatomical and anthropometric features are included and explained. These measurements are tabulated in life size and in different ratios from heroic, 3/2, to 1/12th life size in twelve columns. A presentation of relative proportions, using Leonardo da Vince's system, is included. This book is intended as an assistance for creating fine realistic and representational art, includ-portraits, from monumental to miniature sizes.

The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body: and Lessons on Foreshortening
The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body: and Lessons on Foreshortening

Author: Johann Gottfried Schadow

Publisher: Tom Richardson

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 0982167822

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"This new edition combines the 1892 reprint of Dr. Schadow's work which was originally designed to supplement the studies of his students at the Royal Academy of Art in Berlin, with a new translation of the forward [sic] to the 1892 reprint by Ernst Wasmuth, a translation of Dr. Schadow's original introduction and supplemental copies of prints by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus whose work formed the basis for Dr. Schadow's studies of bones and muscles. The work was originally titled Lehre von dem Knochen and Muskeln von den Verhaeltnissen de Menshlichen Koerpers und von den Verkuerzungen."--Page 4 of cover.