[Scvola Perfetta Per imparare a Disegnare tutto il corpo Humano]

Carracci, Agostino [Hrsg.], Carracci, Annibale [Hrsg.], Stefanoni, Pietro [Hrsg.] · 1630 · 35 pictures

A 1630 Italian drawing manual edited by Agostino and Annibale Carracci with Pietro Stefanoni, teaching students to draw the human head and body through engraved studies. The four plates show heads turned at steep angles, in pen-like etched line with soft cross-hatched shading on the cheeks, necks and drapery. A designer could take from them a method of building forms from simple contour and hatching, and how a head turns in space.

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