Albrecht Durer - De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum 1532 - Underweysung der Messung 1538 (Art Ebook).pdf

Pages: 566
Publisher: Octavo
edition (March 2003)
Language: English
Format: pdf
Size: 637 MB
ISBN-10: 1891788078
ISBN-13: 978-1891788079

This exceptional volume of De Symmetria and Underweysung der Messung bears the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, a passionate collector of the work of Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). Bound together in exquisite Bohemian vellum, forming a sammelband, these two works create an illustrated manual for still-life and portrait artists. De Symmetria is the first two books of the Latin edition of his elaborate study of human anatomy and proportion. Underweysung is the result of Dürer’s lifelong study of geometry, mathematics, and the methods of art. Both books demonstrate Dürer’s technical and artistic brilliance. This Octavo Edition shows these extraordinary works in remarkable detail and includes bibliographical data and English translations of Dürer’s texts. Commentary by David Price.