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De chair et de marbre. Imiter et exprimer le nu en France (1745-1815)
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Martial Guédron |
This book presents an imaginative and knowing reading of artistic education and practice in France during the 18th century. |
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Anatomy
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Henry Gray F.R.S.,Henry Vandyke Carter |
An unabridged edition of "Gray's Anatomy", the scientific and artistic triumph. Kept in print by its clarity and usefulness, the text features sumptuous illustrations and clear, matter-of-fact descri… |
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Human anatomy made amazingly easy
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Christopher Hart |
Explains how to draw anatomy, focusing on the bones and muscles that affect form, and covering the use of perspective on the body, foreshortening and diminution, and methods of self-checking proporti… |
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An atlas of anatomy for artists
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Fritz Schider |
This standard work contains 189 full-page plates, more than 647 illustrations of all aspects of the human skeleton, musculature, cutaway portions of the body, each part of the anatomy, hand forms, ey… |
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Shaping humanity
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John Gurche |
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordina… |
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Human figure drawing
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Daniela Brambilla |
This book shows us how to learn to draw the human figure through developing the ability to observe the subject. Drawing the human figure is crucial for artists, but is also one of the most complex as… |
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The anatomical venus
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Joanna Ebenstein |
Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venus―with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death―is the most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining o… |
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Force
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Michael D. Mattesi |
The newest book in Michael Mattesi's Force Drawing series takes movement to the next level. Force: Drawing Human Anatomy, explores the different facets of motion and the human body. As opposed to the… |
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Artistic anatomy
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Robert Beverly Hale,Dr. Paul Richer |
"Artistic Anatomy" is widely acknowledged to be the greatest book of its kind since the Renaissance. The original French edition, now a rare collector's item, was published in 1889 and was probably u… |
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Practical art anatomy
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Edwin George Lutz |
From dustjacket: Mr. Lutz shows a marked gift for teaching not only the principles and theory but the expedient and practice of graphic art. The text is a selection and simplification of the part of … |
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Polyclet
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Johann Gottfried Schadow |
This guide to the proportions of the human form is a reformatted reproduction of the famous but hard to find work by Johann Gottfried Shadow. It includes images of plates engraved by John Sutcliffe f… |
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Leonardo
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Carlo Pedretti,Kunster,Erfinder,Wissenschaftler,Michael Desmond,Leonardo da Vinci |
Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the wor… |
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The deerslayer
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James Fenimore Cooper |
The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, but acts as a prequel to the other novels. It begins with the rapid civilizing of New York, in which surrounds the followi… |
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