Showing posts with label Johann Georg Heck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johann Georg Heck. Show all posts

Monday, May 10, 2010

Johann Georg Heck - More Antique Sculptures


Fig. 1 . Phidias's statue of Pallas in the Parthenon in Athens 2. The Medicean Venus 3. The Venus of Melos 4. The Venus of the Dresden Museum 5. The Venus Victrix from Capua 6. The Capitoline Venus 7. Diana the Huntress in Paris 8. Statue of Sallustia Barbara Urbana with Eros, in Rome 9. Statue of Julia Soatmis in Rome 10. Sleep as a boy, in Dresden.


Figure 1. Hercules's combat with Antatus 2. Aphrodite and Ares (Venus and Mars) 3. The reclining Hermaphrodite 4. Pallas, in the Villa Albani 5. Pallas with the serpent 6. The Farnese Flora 7. The wounded Amazon of Ctesilaus S. The dancing Hours 9. Fragment of the frieze of the Parthenon 10. Fragment from the Capitoline Museum 11. Bas-relief from a tripod-stand in Dresden 12-17. Grecian portrait-busts 18-20. Grecian animal heads 21. The Gonzaga cameo 22-26. Grecian coins


Figure 1, 2. The Farnese Hercules 3. The Torso Belvedere 4. The Borghese Gladiator 5. The Dying Gladiator 6. The Pallas from Velletri 7. Cupid and Psyche 8. Venus crouching in the bath 9. Statue of Adonis 10. Statue of Dionysus, in Paris 11. Statue of Bacchus, in Dresden 12. Statue of Cincinnatus in Paris 13. Boy extracting a thorn from his foot, in Rome


Figure 1. Statue of Antinous of Belvedere 2. The Apollo of Belvedere 3. Statue of a Faun 4. Statue of Germanicus, from the 15th century; it belongs to the period of the revival of art, but the sculptor is not known. It is preserved in the Louvre in Paris 5. Hercules with the boy Telephus on his arm, in Rome 6. Boy wrestling with a goose 7. Laocoon, in the Vatican 8. Statue of Meleager, in Rome

More engravings from the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art By Johann Georg Heck. The German title is Bilder Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon Ikonographische Encyclopadie der Wissenschaften und Kunste

Individual plates from the book are for sale on Ebay Click here to see them for sale on Ebay.

At Amazon.com:


Saturday, November 8, 2008

Henry Winkles, Engraver - Skulls



These are a couple of engravings from the Bilder Atlas zum Conversations - Lexikon
Ikonographische Encyclopadie der Wissenschaften und Kunste

(Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science and Art) by german author Johann Georg Heck - Leipzig 1849

Search for prints from the Bilder Atlas on Ebay

Or search for copies at Abebooks.com. Use the search terms "Johann George Heck, Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon."

















A book of Heck's Pictorial Archive as available.
Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (v. 3)Heck's Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (v. 3)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The Human Skeleton and Muscles - Johann Georg Heck


Another engraving from the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art By Johann Georg Heck. The German title is Bilder Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon Ikonographische Encyclopadie der Wissenschaften und Kunste

This one is the human skeleton from the front view, side view and back view. It was engraved by Henry Winkles. He was an architectural painter and steel engraver in the early nineteenth century.

Here are some notes on the print: The average human skeleton is comprised of 206 bones of varying shapes and sizes. Although all bones provide the body with structure and support, differently shaped bones fufill different roles. The long bones of the arms and legs, such as the humerus or the femur, raise and lower like levers. Flat bones, such as those of the skull, protect the soft tissues they enclose. (The smaller skeletons in the corners are of those of a fetus).
The second image is a study of muscles from the front an back views.

Here is the key:
Fig. 1-2. Anterior ligament, 1-3. Interarticular ligament, 2-3. Posterior ligament, 2-3. Middle costo-transverse ligament, 2-4. Internal costo-transverse ligament, 4-5, 5-3. Iliolumbar ligament, 4-3, 5-2. Posterior sacro-coccygean ligament, 4-6. anterior sacro-iliac ligament, 5-5. Posterior, 5-6. Great sacro-sciatic ligament, 7. Symphisis pubis, 8,9. Sterno-clavicular articulation, 9-2. Inter-clavicular ligament, 9-5. Rhomboid ligament, 10-1. Acromio-clavicular ligament, 10-2. Conoid, 10-3. Trapezoid, 15-1. Internal lateral ligament, 16-1,2. Interosseous ligament, 19-1. (Muscle) Temporalis, 19-2. Levator palpebrae, 19-3. Zygomaticus, 19-4. Orbicularis, 19-5. Levator anguli oris, 19-6. Masseter, 19-7. Sterno cleido-mastoid, 19-8. Subclavius, 19-9. Pectoralis minor, 19-10. Dentations of the serratus magnus, 19-11. Linea alba, 19-12. Rectus abdominus, 19-13. Transversus abdominis, 19-15. Biceps, 20-1. Temporal muscle, 20-2. Splenius, 20-3. Levator scapulae, 20-4. Rhomboideus, 20-5. Serratus posticus superior, 20-6. Supra spinatus, 20-7. Infra spinatus, 20-8. Teres minor, 20-9. Serratus posticus inferior, 20-10. Quadratus lumborum, 20-16. Triceps extensor cubiti, 20-17. Brachialis internus, 20-18. Anconaeus, 20-19. Extensor, 20-20. Flexor, 20-22. Indicator, 20-22. Abductor.

He traveled to Australia in 1852 and made a number of sketches of miner's camps. They are on the web here.

Johann Georg Heck was an author of encyclopedic reference books during the same time. See my other post: Human Anatomy for Artists and Drawing Proportions of the Human Body.



The engravings of the skull are also by Henry Winkles.

The Anatomical Atlas by Henry H. Smith, M.D. also published in the mid-eighteenth century also has some skeleton references.


Another Engraving published by Johann Georg Heck, The Muscles of the Head.

Click here to see the print for sale on Ebay.
Fig. 1, superficial muscles of the head from the left side: 1, epicranial aponeurosis; 2,3, occipito-frontalis, anterior portion; 4, posterior portion, the two connected by the epicranial aponeurosis ; 5, attollens aurem; 6, retrahens aurem ; 7, attrahens aurem ; 8, orbicularis palpebrarum; 9, compressor naris; 10, levator labii superioris alaeque nasi ; 11, levator labii superioris; 12, zygomaticus minor; 13, zygomaticus major; 14, levator anguli oris; 15, depressor anguli oris; 16, depressor labii inferioris; 17, levator menti ; 18, orbicularis oris ; 19, buccinator ; 20, masseter. Fig. 2, deep-seated muscles of the head from the left side: 1, temporal muscle; 2, corrugator supercilii; 3, superior oblique muscle of the eye; 4, levator palpebrae; 5, compressor naris ; 6, depressor naris ; 7, orbicularis ; 8, levator anguli oris ; 9, depressor labii inferioris; 10, buccinator. Fig. 3.1, platysma myoides; 2, musculus risorius santorini, 3, sterno-celido-mastoid; 4, trapezius; Fig. 4.1,2, digastric muscle; Fig. 9. 1, pectoralis major; 2, pectoralis minor; 3, subclavius; 4, serratus magnus; 5, intercostals; Fig. 10.1,2,3, obliquus internus; Fig. 11.1, muscular portion of the diaphragm; Fig. 12.1, supra spinatus; 2, infra spinatus; 3, teres minor; 4, teres major; Fig. 13.1, subscapularis, 2, biceps; Fig. 14.1, tendon of the triceps; 2, brachialis internus; Fig. 15.1, deltoid; 2, common tendon of the triceps; 3,4,5, the long, the external and the internal portions; 6, anconaeus;

Anatomy of the Muscles

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Fig. 1-1, serratus posticus superior; 1-2. serratus posticus inferior ; 1-3. orsal aponeurosis; 1-4. splenius capitis; 1-5,6. sacro-spinalis; 1-7. cervicalis ascendens ; 1-8. trachelo-mastoid ; 1-9. semi-spinalis dorsi et colli ; 1-10. complexus; 1-11. spinalis dorsi et colli. 2-1. splenius capitis; 2-2. splenius colli; 2-3,5. complexus; 2-4., trachelo mastoid. 3-1. complexus; 3-2. trachelo-mastoid; 3-3. minor, 3-4. major rectus capitis posticus; 3-5. obliquus capitis, inferior and superior. Fig. 4-1. pronator teres; 4-2. flexor carpi radialis; 4-3. palmaris longus; 4-4. flexor carpi ulnaris; 4-5. supinator longus; 4-6. flexor digitorum communis. Fig. 5-1. flexor digitorum communis sublimis; 5-2. slit for the passage of the flexor profundus; 5-3. supinator longus: 5-4. lower part of the brachialis internus; 5-5. tendon of the biceps; 5-6. palmar ligament. Fig. 6-1. flexor communis digitorum profundus; 6-2,3. flexor pollicis longus; 6-4. pronator quadratus; 6-5,6. supinator longus et brevis. Fig. 7-1. extensor digitorum communis; 7-2. extensor digiti minimi; 7-3. extensor carpi ulnaris; 7-4. anconoeus; 7-5. extensor carpi radialis longus et brevis; 7-6. annular ligament. Fig. 8-1. supinator brevis; 8-2. anconoeus reflected; 8-3. abductor longus pollicis ; 8-4. extensor pollicis brevis ; 8-5. extensor pollicis longus; 8-6. extensor indicis. Fig. 9-1. tendon of the extensor pollicis longus; 9-2. tendon of the palmaris longus; 9-3. tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris; 9-4. abductor pollicis brevis; 9-5. opponens pollicis; 9-6. flexor pollicis brevis ; 9-7. abductor pollicis; 9-8. palmaris brevis; 9-9. abductor digiti minimi; 9-10. flexor brevis digiti minimi ; 9-11. opponens digiti minimi; 9-12. internal interosseous muscle.

Fig. 10-1,2,3. external interosseons muscles. 11-1. glutaeus maximus; 11-2. glutaeus meclius. Fig. 12-1. glutaeus medius; 12-2. pyriformis; 12-3. tendon of the obturator internus; 12-4. quadratus femoris; 12-5. section of the tendon of the glutaeus maximus. Fig. 13-1. section of the pyriformis; 13-2. glutaeus minimus; 13-3. obturator mternus; 13-4. quadratus femoris; 13-5. adductor femoris; 13-6. biceps flexor cruris; 13-7. semi-tendinosus; 13-8. semi-membranosus. Fig. 14-1. psoas magnus, 14-2. iliacus internus (both in section); 14-3. sartorius; 14-4. tensor vaginae femoris; 14-5. rectus ; 14-6. vastus extern us ; 14-7. pectinaeus ; 14-8. adductor longus; 14-9. gracilis. Fig. 15-1. the four extensors of the leg, the rectus supposed to be cut off: 15-2. adductor brevis; 15-3. adductor magnus; 15-4. obturator externus. Fig. 16-1. tibialis anticus; 16-2. extensor pollicis longus; 16-3. extensor digitorum commums; 16-4,9. peronaeus longns; 16-5,8. peronaeus brevis; 16-6. extensol communis brevis; 16-3,7. peronaeus tertius; 16-10. annular ligament on the back of the foot. Fig. 17-1. flexor digitorum brevis; 17-2. abductor pollicis; 17-3. flexor pollicis brevis; 17-4. abductor digiti minimi; 17-5. flexor brevis digiti minimi. Fig. 18-1. flexor pollicis brevis; 18-2. adductor pollicis; 18-3. transversalis plantaris; 18-4. tendon of the peronaeus longus. Fig. 19 interosseous muscles of the back of the foot.

Muscles of the Leg and Foot.
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Link to another page from Johann Georg Heck's book: The Order of Life: 144 images showing the progression and systematization of life, 1849

Google Books volume 3.




This is a good book for drawing the figure as it relates to the skeleton:
Anatomy For The ArtistAnatomy For The Artist

The spiral bound edition is also available: Anatomy for the Artist


How to Draw People at Figure-Drawings.com
How to Draw Proportions at Figure-Drawings.com

Monday, October 13, 2008

Human Anatomy for Artists and Drawing Proportions of the Human Body


Two steel engravings show examples of how to draw human proportions.

They give examples of human anatomy, muscles and proportions for the artist. The engravings are by an unknown artist, published by Johann Georg Heck who was active in the mid nineteenth century. He published an influential volume on art history, anthropology and natural history.

Here is a link to a Google Books result for Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art By Johann Georg Heck.

This link is to a blog with a representative illustration:

Here is a link to the out of print edition at Amazon.com: Iconographic encyclopedia of the arts and sciences.



How to Draw People at Figure-Drawings.com
How to Draw Proportions at Figure-Drawings.com


And here is an Amazon.com link to another book with illustrations: Encyclopedia of Source Illustrations: A Portable Picture Library of 5000 Steel Engravings (2 Volumes).

Another source for proportions of the human body as used in art is Analytic Diagrams of Proportion and the Human Body: From L'idea della architettura universale can be seen at The Metropolitan Museum site.

Dicussion on the Golden Section in Architectural Theory by Marcus Frings.

Other copies are available at AbeBooks.com. Enter the search term "Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art ," or "Johann Georg Heck, or "Encyclopedia of Source Illustrations."




The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body and Lessons on Foreshortening is available as a download from Figure-Drawings.com, and as a printed book from Amazon.com.








Johann Gottfried Schadow, muscles of the face, muscles of the human body side view, human skeleton.



The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body: and Lessons on Foreshortening. I have a post about this book here.



Here is an interesting page showing how to render human proportions. It shows the body in different views: Body Pattern, from Goregoregore.com.

How to Draw Proportions 6


Another post on human body proportions: The Proportions of the Members in a Human Body.

Another post showing a Japanese drawing of human proportions: Kuwagata Keisai (Kitao Masayoshi) - Human Proportions, Actions and Sketches.

And one about the work of Claude Perrault: Les proportions du corps humain, measurées sur les plus belles figures de l'antiquité.

A post about my book: The Sculptor and Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form.

A post about a Dutch book on human proportions and drawing the human figure Female Proportions, male Proportions - Natuurlyk en schilderkonstig ontwerp der menschkunde.




Two of the images from the book, The Sculptor and Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form.

The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form at Amazon.com.






Art Models 4: Life Nude Photos for the Visual Arts (Art Models series)



The Art Models books are a modern update of the engraved patterns of human body proportions and anatomy. With a series of photographs of the figure in the same pose but photographed from different angles, they provide the artist with the nexty best thing to having a live model to sketch from.


Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting
Art Models 2: Life Nude Photos for the Visual Arts (Book & CD-ROM) (No. 2)
Art Models 3: Life Nude Photos for the Visual Arts (Art Models series) (No. 3)

Samples from the art models books.




More samples.










Another book that might be of interest is Anatomy for Art Students, Painters and Sculptors, it is available both as an ebook at Figure-Drawings.com and as a printed book at Lulu.com.

I have a post about it here.



Albrecht Durer's The Four Books on Human Proportions:


















Link to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza page on Durer.

Link to the Wikipedia page on the Vitruvian Man.

Link to the National Library of Scotland Page about the Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion.



Image from Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden


Albrecht Dürer: Von den Proportionen des menschlichen Körpers / About the Proportions of the Human Body
Three studies on the proportions of male figures and profile of an elderly man with a hat.


Albrecht Durer, Woman of  Eight Headlengths
Albrecht Dürer: Von den Proportionen des Menschlichen Körpers / About the proportions of the human body
Text and two sketches on the proportions of an infant.




The Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB) was established on 22nd January, 1996. It has emerged from the former Saxon State Library (established in 1556) and the former University Library of Dresden Technical University (established in 1828), and ranks among the largest scientific libraries in Germany, with a stock of 8.6 million units.



Images from De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum by Albrecht Durer.
De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum / Underweysung der Messung (Multilingual Edition)This exceptional volume of De Symmetria and Underweysung der Messung bears the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, a passionate collector of the work of Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). Bound together in exquisite Bohemian vellum, forming a sammelband, these two works create an illustrated manual for still-life and portrait artists. De Symmetria is the first two books of the Latin edition of his elaborate study of human anatomy and proportion. Underweysung is the result of Dürer’s lifelong study of geometry, mathematics, and the methods of art. Both books demonstrate Dürer’s technical and artistic brilliance. This Octavo Edition shows these extraordinary works in remarkable detail and includes bibliographical data and English translations of Dürer’s texts. Commentary by David Price.
More about Albrecht Durer at "Albrecht Dürer and Nicholas Cusanus:
the Real, the Ideal, and the Quantification of the Body
"



Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form









Children's Proportions for Artists



Life Drawing: A Journey to Self-Expression


Life Drawing: How To Portray The Figure With Accuracy And Expression

Der Nackte Mensch In Der Kunst Aller Zeiten

Der Nackte Mensch: Aspekte der Aktdarstellung in der Kunst (The Nude: Aspects of its Representation in Art)


The Artist's Guide to Human Anatomy


The Female Nude I: A Pose Book For Artists


The Nude Female Figure: A Visual Reference for the Artist







Classic Human Anatomy: The Artist's Guide to Form, Function, and Movement











Another chart of proportions, the human body divided into 7 1/2 heads for the female, and 8 heads for the male, and a link to an art project based on the chart. Martha Miller's Blog.


 From a 1930's newspaper illustration.


Heinrich Lautensack wrote a treatise on perpective, Des Circkels und Richtscheyts, auch der Perspectiva und Proportion der Menscher, which owed much to Durer. The entire book can be viewed online at Digitale Bibliothek - Munchen. Here is an image showing the realative proportions of man, woman and child.







Dover edition of Dr. Julien Fau's book featuring the black and white plates.

Human Anatomy for Artists: A New Edition of the 1849 Classic with CD-ROM (Dover Pictorial Archives)





For more complete information about my republished edition featuring the color prints see my post: Anatomy for Art Students Painters and Sculptors.



Anatomy for Art Students, Painters and Sculptors a reprint of Dr. Julien Fau's famous work for art students, available both at Amazon.com and as an e-book.










An out of print book available from various sellers at Amazon.com is Anatomy for Artists: A Complete Guide to Drawing the Human Body










Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian ArtProportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art
Head Proportion Made SimpleHead Proportion Made Simple

Human proportion in art and anthropometry;: A lecture delivered at the National museum, Washington, D.C.,

Proportion in artProportion in art


Related: Female anatomy for artists.











Art Model Books


Becca335 Pose (Art Models)

Kindle, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology

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More images or human proportions at human-proportions.tumblr.com 



Becca335 Pose (Art Models)