Della fisionomia dell'huomo
Della fisionomia dell'huomo is a 1644 Venetian treatise on physiognomy, printed by C. Tomasini and attributed to Giambattista della Porta, with later editing by Giovanni Ingegneri. Its woodcuts pair nude male figures seen from front and back with bearded heads in profile, a method for reading character from the body and face. A designer could take the tidy hatching, the paired front-and-back poses, and the grouped profile studies as models for anatomical or character reference layouts.
