La metoposcopia, ouero, Com[m]ensuratione delle linee della fronte : trattato

Spontone, Ciro, ca. 1552-ca. 1610 · 1626 · In Venetia : Per Euangelista Deuchino · 43 pictures

A 1626 Venetian treatise on metoposcopy, the reading of character from lines on the forehead, by Ciro Spontone, printed by Evangelista Deuchino. Its pictures are small woodcut busts of bald or balding older men, with forehead lines and facial features drawn as physiognomic types. A designer could take from them the hatched woodcut shading, the strong profile heads, and the wide range of beards and hairstyles in simple cut lines.

Physiognomy · Phrenology

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