Guide to Drawing Expression - The School of Raphael - Previews at Amazon and Google

The School of Raphael: The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting can now be previewed both at Amazon.com and at Google Books.
Or purchase the e-book at Figure-Drawings.com.

Amazon.com 

The School of Raphael: The Student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting (Paperback)
~ Nicholas Dorigny (Author), N. Pigne (Illustrator), Gaspar Duchange (Illustrator), S. Thomassin (Illustrator), L. Desplaces (Illustrator), D. Beauvais (Illustrator), C. Dupuis (Illustrator), N. Tardieu (Illustrator), B. Lepissie (Illustrator), Benjamin Ralph (Commentary), Tom Richardson (Designer)

Google Books

The School of Raphael By Nicholas Dorigny with commentary by Benjamin Ralph and contributions by Tom Richardson

Another post at: How to Draw Expressions: The Example of Raphael and the Engravings of Nicholas Dorigny

Other Previews at Amazon.com:
The Art Student's Guide To The Proportions Of The Human Form
The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body: and Lessons on Foreshortening The Human Head: A Correct Delineation of the Anatomy, Expressions, Features, Proportions and Positions of the Head and Face How To Draw The Human Figure: 
The Drawings Of Grace Young

Other Previews at Google Books: The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body Human head: a correct delineation of the anatomy, expressions, features... How to Draw the Human Figure: The Drawings of Grace Young

Figure Drawing by Richard G. Hatton

  

Figure Drawing by Richard G. Hatton, originally published in 1904 by Chapman and Hall is available as an e-book at Figure-Drawings.com.

From the preface:

The artist studies anatomy in order that he may the better understand what the form of the figure is. Not infrequently he finds, however,that his anatomy has not helped him very much.  He finds that it asserts itself in a manner which does not improve his work.  He feels overborne by the mass of "origins" and "insertions," and endeavors to learn by heart lists of muscles and bones, and fears the disgrace of not knowing, like a school-boy, all the facts exhibited in the book he happens to be studying.  If he grows interested he finds, after a while, that he begins to decry anatomical study as so much wasted labour.

The reason for such a verdict is that the study, instead of being directed to the correction and development of the ideas already present in the mind concerning the form of the figure, is dissipated among a multitude of accurate little statements.  The very accuracy of the statements tends to rob them of their utility to the artist.  Often a student will labour to remember the location (and even the accurate anatomical description of the location) of the insertions of a muscle, and its form.  He too, soon gets to deceive himself with the idea that a knowledge of names and of insertions amounts to the knowledge of anatomy.

Artist will always owe much to such surgeons as the late John Marshal whose works on Anatomy for Artists and a Rule of Proportion for the Human Figure have steadied and fixed the inquiry into the structure of the human body.  One would certainly not displace the sound thoroughness of MArshall for the less conclusive and less certain work of his predecessors. But there can be little doubt that the student needs something different at a certain stage of his career. He wants to be helped with his form and his construction, and to help him effectually the subject must be approached from a draughtsman's standpoint.

It is with the hope of fulfilling such a purpose that the present work is issued.

   

Printed versions at Amazon.com

Figure Drawing

Figure Drawing: A Complete Guide (Dover Books on Art Instruction)

A digital version of another book, Figure Composition by Richard G. Hatton is at Google Books.

Another contemporary book The proportions of the human body  by Sir Bertram C. A. Windle is at the Internet Archive.

Agnolo Bronzino at the Met

 

Peter Schjeldahl has an informative article in the New Yorker about Agnolo Bronzino the sixteenth century Italian Mannerist at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

More images of the drawings are at Apogeepoet

 The Drawings of Bronzino (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

 

Left,  study of a left leg and drapery from The Art Tribune, Right, Study of a woman

Two out of print books:
BRONZINO as Draughtsman. An introduction. With notes on his portraiture and tapestries.
Bronzino As Draughtsman: An Introduction

Some of his paintings:

 

Left, Andrea Doria as Neptune from mlahanas.de/poseidon/neptune, Right, Venus and Cupid from artcess

 

Left, Maria de Medici from ladysarafina, Right, St.Sebastian from LibArt

The Metropolitan Museum had a great page on  Bronzino and the mannerists: Mannerism: Bronzino (1503–1572) and his Contemporaries

Bronzino
 Bronzino (English Ed.)
 Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio (California Studies in the History of Art)
 Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet
 Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence