Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum
Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum is a 1731 Amsterdam print collection compiled from earlier work by Jan de Bisschop, published from the plates of Nicolaas Visscher, and aimed at artists studying drawing. Its pictures are etched figure studies of muscular nude and draped bodies, several drawn after ancient and Renaissance sculpture, with a few pages grouping small fragments of limbs and torsos. A designer could take from them the lean line work, hatched shading and anatomical poses of old-master teaching prints.
