The human figure : the complete "Dresden sketchbook." / edited, with an introd., translations, and commentary by Walter L. Strauss.
By: Dürer, Albrecht.
Contributor(s): Strauss, Walter L
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BookPublisher: New York : Dover, 1972Description: xviii, 354 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 0486210421.Contained works: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528. Skizzenbuch von Albrecht Dürer in der königlichen öffentlichen Bibliothek zu Dresden. 1972.Subject(s): Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 | Human figure in artDDC classification: 741.092 DÜR
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 741.092 DÜR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00063958 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This incredible collection contains drawings in which D#65533;rer experimented with many methods: the "anthropometric system," learned from Leonardo; the "exempeda" method, known to most as the man inscribed in a circle, the human figure in motion and much more. While some drawings are theoretical, many more are life studies that rank among the finest ever done. 170 plates.
"The illustrations have been reproduced from those in the portfolio Das Skizzenbuch von Albrecht Dürer in der königlichen öffentlichen Bibliothek zu Dresden, edited by Robert Bruck."
Bibliography: p. 345-347
CIT Module ARTS 7023 - Core reading.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Albrecht Durer was the commanding figure of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremburg, the son of a goldsmith, he was apprenticed at age 15 to a painter and printmaker, from whom he learned the precision of detail that is one of the hallmarks of his great art, both in his woodcuts and in his drawings (The Hare is a famous example). As a young man, he traveled widely throughout Germany and also to Italy, where he was profoundly affected by the emerging art of the High Renaissance, of which he became the primary exponent in the North. He settled in Nuremburg, which he left in 1520 on a trip to the Netherlands, the diaries of which are among the most interesting documents in the history of art. Besides being a fine painter, Durer was one of the greatest graphic artists of all time. He left behind more than 350 woodcuts, 100 engravings, and approximately 900 drawings and watercolors. As a humanist artist of his time, he was also deeply concerned with art theory and wrote treatises on measurement, fortification, proportion, and on artistic theory itself.(Bowker Author Biography)