The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body: and Lessons on Foreshortening

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 was a talented neo-classical sculptor working in Berlin in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is famous for the quadriga on the Brandenburger Tor and the bust of Friederike von Preußen.


He became director of the Royal Academy of Art in Berlin in 1816 and this book is his first work dedicated to the instruction of his students in the basic anatomy of the human body. He used the prints of Albinus as a starting point and developed clear images of the bone structure and the muscular structure of the human body so that artists and sculptors would have a firm footing as they pursued their craft.

To these plates he added three plates on human proportions, a comparison of heads of youth and adult and old age, and a comparison of male and female, a second plate of typical proportions of the human form, and a third on the proportions of ideal form using classical Greek sculpture as the examples.


A third section is a careful analysis of the human head seen from various angles using the techniques of Albrecht Dürer, Jean Cousin and Johann Preissler.

The book was a revelation to students when first published in 1830, was still in use enough to be republished in 1892 and I think today's students of the human form will find it newly valuable for today's art and new media.


Human skeleton from the book.
Muscles of the head from the book.










Muscles of the body from the book.


















Heads by Albrecht Dürer and Jean Cousin.




He expanded on the plates on proportion and added 27 more plates to make his second book for students titled in English The Sculptor and Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form or in the original German, Atlas Zu Polyclet Oder Von Den Maassen Des Menschen Nach Dem Geschlechte Und Alter.

Books at Amazon.com:

The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body: and Lessons on Foreshortening

The Art Student's Guide To The Proportions Of The Human Form

Kunstwerke und Kunstansichten: Ein Quellenwerk zur Berliner Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte zwischen 1780-1845 (German Edition)



An example of the classical sculpture the Venus de Medici and Dr. Schadows analysis of it.






This last image is that of a student working in the atelier of Dr. Schadow drawn by the student Emil Bendeman, in 1836.






Related posts:

The Sculptor and Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form

Johann Gottfried Schadow - Die Zeichnungen

The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form

Related Books:

Albinus on Anatomy



Anatomical Plates Of The Bones And Muscles: Diminished From Albinus, For The Use Of Students In Anatomy, And Artists : Accompanied By Explanatory Maps



Anatomical Plates Of The Bones And Muscles: Diminished From Albinus For The Use Of Students In Anatomy And Artists (1807)


The Anatomical Plates of Pietro da Cortona 27 Baroque Masterpieces

Related book available as an e-book, soon available at Amazon.com:
The Art Student's Guide to External Anatomy

German 1886 edition of Atlas Zu Polyclet Oder Von Den Maassen Des Menschen Nach Dem Geschlechte Und Alter at Abebooks.com

Polyclet oder von den Maassen des Menschen nach dem Geschlecht und Alter. 11. Aufl. Mit einem Vorwort 1909 Folio German edition at Abebooks.com

Lehre von den Knochen und Muskeln von den Verhaeltnissen des Menschlichen Koerpers Folio German edition at Abebooks.com

Kunst-Werke Und Kunst-Ansichten (1849) (German Edition)

How to Draw the Head and Body - Jehan Cousin - The Science of Portraiture Described and Demonstated

Woodcut prints from Jehan Cousin's 1676 book titled The Science of Portraiture Described and Demonstated are shown.

1. Features and proportions of the human body, both from the front and rear.

2. Shortcuts to drawing the head in three quarter view.

3. Entire Human Figure.

Jehan Cousin the younger was born in France around 1522. He was the son of the famous painter and sculptor Jean Cousin the Elder who was often compared to Albrecht Dürer. Just before his death, Jehan the elder published his noted work Livre de Perspective in 1560 in which he noted that his son would soon be publishing a companion entitled, Livre de Pourtraicture.

Links:

Selected Plates are available at:

The National Institute of Health, Historical Anatomies.

Livre de Pourtraicture at Ebay.com.

This is a description from the Bookseller Antiquariaat Forum in the Netherlands who has a copy for sale at Abebooks.com.

The Le Bé edition of 1676 of this beautiful and celebrated woodcut drawing book for the use of all kinds of draughtsmen and artists, like painters, sculptors, architects, gold and silver-smiths, embroiderers and cabinetmakers, with the original blocks which Le Blé had acquired from J. le Clerc. The earliest Le Clerc edition had appeared in 1595, followed by at least seven other editions. The very first edition, under the title Livre de pourtraicture is from 1560. Later editions were published with the title L'art de dessiner. The human models are beautifully drawn and cut in wood, with the shadowy parts and the perspectival projections darkly hatched.his father, Jehan Cousin Sr, the younger Cousin (ca. 1522-1594) was an important artist; his contemporaries often compared him with Dürer. He is also the author of several treatises on the theory of art of which this one on portrait painting, is the most important. The treatise is inspired by Vitruvius's work on the proportions of the human body and it served for a long time as 'The' manual for artists in this field. Probably he composed this work together and in collaboration with his father, Jehan Cousin Sr. (ca. 1490-1560), who announces the publication of his son's work in his own, very famous book Livre de perspective - also published in 1560.

According to the Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical By Michael Bryan, Robert Edmund Graves, Walter Armstrong, Published by G. Bell and sons, 1889, Aubin Olivier a die sinker and engraver of wood, as well as the director of the Mint under Henri II in 1553 was the wood engraver along with Jean le Royer of the Livre de Perspective.

Link to an online edition of Livre de Perspective.


Heads


Head Proportion Made Simple


Facial Geometry: Graphic Facial Analysis for Forensic Artists


Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing (Dover Books on Art Instruction, Anatomy)

The Human Head: A Correct Delineation of the Anatomy, Expressions, Features, Proportions and Positions of the Head and Face

The School of Raphael: The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting

The Passions I Styles Art Poster Print by Raphael, 18x14 at Amazon.com

Drawing in Perspective

Edme-Sebastien Jearat's Traite de Perspective. Is now available as a printed book from Lulu.com.


Edme Sebastien Jeaurat (1725-1803), was a French architect and Royal engineer-geographer. His course on perspective was the standard text book in France in the 18th century.

An astronomer, and the son of an engraver, Jeaurat demonstrated talent for drawing, but also mathematics. In 1746, he won a prize drawing of the Academy of painting.

In 1749 as and engineer and geographer to the King he prepared the large map of France.

In 1750, he wrote a treatise on perspective. In 1753 he became a professor of mathematics at the Military Academy. In the same year he is appointed to the Academy of Sciences. Jeaurat made calculations on the movements of planets, and observed the comets of 1759 and 1760.

Many of his writings are related to astronomy, they appeared in the Collection of foreign scholars (1763) and the memoirs of the Academy of Sciences Pars (1763-88). Jeaurat also wrote twelve volumes of knowledge of time. He died in 1803 in Paris.


This ebook is now available as a printed book.
Please visit Lulu.com.

Books at Amazon.com


Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing (Dover Books on Art Instruction, Anatomy)

Traite De Perspective a L'Usage Des Artistes the original book at Amazon.com for $1200.

Traite de Perspective

Traité De Perspective À L'Usage Des Artistes: Où L'On Démontre Géométriquement Toutes Les Pratiques De Cette Science, & Où L'On Enseigne, Selon La Méthode ... Dans L'Eau, & Leu (French Edition)

 
Perspective for Artists (Dover Art Instruction and Reference Books)