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Proportion (Art)

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Images about Proportion (Art)

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  • Skulls: above, diagrams demonstrating the proportions of the human skull; below, four views of the skull. Line engraving after G. de Lairesse.

Works from the collections

11 works

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    Delle opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci intorno alla simmetria de' corpi umani / discorso di Giuseppe Bossi.

    Bossi, Giuseppe. | Date: 1811
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    Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro / di Alberto Durero ... ; Nuouamente tradotti dalla lingua latina nella italiana da M. Gio. Paolo Gallucci Salodiano. Et accresciuti del quinto libro, nel quale si tratta, con quai modi possano i pittori e scoltori mostrare la diuersità della natura degli huomini, et donne, et con quali le passioni, che sentono per li diuersi accidenti, che li occorrono. Hora di nuouo stampati.

    Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528. | Date: 1591
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    Tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge, buildinge / written first in Italian, and Englished by R[ichard] H[aydocke] student in physik. [With a foreword by John Case].

    Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600. | Date: [1598]
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    L'art de dessiner / Par Jean Cousin.

    Cousin, Jehan, approximately 1522-approximately 1593. | Date: 1778
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    Principi del disegno tratti dalle più eccellenti statue antiche per li giovani. Che vogliono incamminarsi nello studio delle belle arti / Pubblicati e incisi da Giovanni Volpato e Raffaelle Morghen.

    Volpato, Giovanni, 1735-1803. | Date: 1786

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