Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
De chair et de marbre. Imiter et exprimer le nu en France (1745-1815) De chair et de marbre. Imiter et exprimer le nu en France (1745-1815) Martial Guédron This book presents an imaginative and knowing reading of artistic education and practice in France during the 18th century. OL12651980W
Anatomy Anatomy 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… OL15399118W
Human anatomy made amazingly easy Human anatomy made amazingly easy 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… OL16026047W
An atlas of anatomy for artists An atlas of anatomy for artists 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… OL192067W
Shaping humanity Shaping humanity 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… OL19974693W
Human figure drawing Human figure drawing 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… OL20001538W
The anatomical venus The anatomical venus 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… OL20030060W
Force Force 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… OL20048772W
Artistic anatomy Artistic anatomy 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… OL20543379W
Practical art anatomy Practical art anatomy 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 … OL2749363W
Polyclet Polyclet 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… OL4718828W
Leonardo Leonardo 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… OL695408W
The deerslayer The deerslayer 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… OL77950W