Artistic anatomy / by Mathias Duval ; translated by Frederick E. Fenton.

  • Mathias-Marie Duval
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Artistic anatomy / by Mathias Duval ; translated by Frederick E. Fenton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    work on plastic anatomy yet published, but which errs in a somewhat too lengthy description of the exterior form, whilst sufficient space is not devoted to explaining the anatomical reasons of those forms. On the other hand, the remaining anatomical works in the hands of the students in our art schools generally comprise a volume of text and an illustrated atlas.* Under these conditions, may I be allowed to remark, somewhat severely, it may be, that our young artists study the atlas by copying and re-copying the plates, but do not read the text. Thus it will be under- stood why, in this work, a different method has been pursued ; and the fact of the plates being intermixed with the text, and in such a way that they cannot well be understood without the aid of the accompany- ing pages, will in ail probability resuit in the student thoroughly and carefully perusing the text. Passing on to the manner of using the présent work, we must acknowledge that reading anatomical details is at first dry ; it will always be so, unless proceeded with in a simple and systematic manner. In the oral courses, the lecturer, handling the objects, and aided by his improvised drawings on the black- * It is not always thus abroad. Thus in Germany there is the work of E. Harless (“Lehrbuch der Plastischen Anatomie für Akade- mische Anstalten.” Stuttgart, 1876: 2nd edit.)