Albinus on Anatomy (eBook)

Terence Coyle, Robert Beverly Hale (Autoren)

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2013
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-31886-8 (ISBN)

Infos

All 80 of the great 18th-century descriptive anatomist's original copperplate engravings, containing over 230 individual illustrations, of the muscles and bones of the human body are rendered individually and in related groups from varying perspectives.

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This beautiful, enthralling book represents the rarest of human achievements: a work of great scientific merit that is a magnificent work of art as well. Bernard Siegfried Albinus was the greatest descriptive anatomist of the eighteenth century. Over a period of twenty years, he produced two volumes of drawings, Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body and Tables of the Human Bones, that have long been revered for their beauty, skill, artistry, and anatomical accuracy. This finely made edition makes them available to the general public at an easily affordable price for the first time since their publication in 1747. All 80 of the original copperplate engravings, containing over 230 individual illustrations, have been painstakingly reproduced for this edition. The muscles and bones of the human body are rendered individually and in related groups from varying perspectives, enabling art students to compare the forms; to analyze their size, shape, direction, and attachments; and to observe with absolute clarity the shape and position of bodily forms. Eighty modern diagrams matching each plate identify each bone and muscle in the most common medical terms. The eminent medical historian Charles Singer praised Albinus' brilliant accomplishment: "e;He introduced a new standard of accuracy into practical anatomy and of accuracy and beauty into anatomical illustrations."e; Singer adds: "e;These illustrations, with their finely wrought ornamental backgrounds, were intended for artists as well as for physicians, and no finer work of their type has ever been executed."e;Introductory essays by the well-known artist and art educator Terence Coyle — including a new introduction to the Dover edition — engagingly explore Albinus' life and work. Following these, Robert Beverly Hale, one of America's best-known teachers of figure drawing and anatomy, brilliantly appraises Albinus' technique and demonstrates how artists today can use his anatomical studies to draw from life, a special feature that makes this magnificent book truly indispensable for artists and art students at every level.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.5.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Anatomy for Artists
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Schlagworte: advanced artists • affordable • Albinus • alexander technique • anatomical knowledge • anatomist • anatomy class • anatomy drawing • anatomy lessons • anatomy physiology • Andreas • art masters • art school • art students • art students league • Atlas • body structures • bone structure • books on alexander techniques • books on anatomy classes • books on anatomy drawings • books on anatomy lessons • books on anatomy physiologies • books on art masters • books on body structures • books on drawing classes • books on drawing lessons • books on drawing students • books on drawing tips • books on figurative arts • books on figure drawings • books on learn anatomies • books on life drawings • books on live models • books on master drawings • books on professional artists • books on students leagues • books on study anatomies • Clothed • copperplate • copying • Diagrams • draw class • drawing class • drawing lessons • drawing skills • drawing students • drawing tips • draw lessons • draw people • draw students • draw tips • Engravings • facial features • farris • female anatomy • figurative art • figure drawing • Goldfinger • Human Anatomy • human body • human figure • humani • Insertion • learn anatomy • learning anatomy • Leonardo • life drawings • live models • loomis • male figure • Master drawings • Michelangelo • Morphology • muscles • Musculature • outer body • Peck • Plates • poses • professional artists • Proportions • publishers • reference guide • richer • Rubens • Sculpting • Sculptors • serious artists • serious student • Skeletal • Skeleton • Sketches • students league • study anatomy • teaching style • Vesalius • Vinci • visual reference
• ISBN-10: 0-486-31886-9 / 0486318869
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-31886-8 / 9780486318868