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Alberti Dvreri clarissimi pictoris et geometrae De symmetria partium humanorum corporum libri quatuor : è germanica lingua in latinam versi

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574 · 1557 · Parisiis : In officina Caroli Perier ... · 210 pictures

Dürer's Latin edition of his four books on human proportion, published in Paris in 1557 and translated from German by Joachim Camerarius for artists and students of the figure. The pictures are small woodcut diagrams of the body, with grids, measuring lines and dotted reference points, showing a designer how to build a figure from measured ratios.

Proportion (Art) · Human figure in art

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