DÜRER (Albrecht). The Four Books of Albert... - Lot 5 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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DÜRER (Albrecht). The Four Books of Albert Durer, Painter and very excellent Geometrist, On the proportion of the parts and perimeters of the human bodies. Translated by Loys Meigret Lionnois, from Latin into French. Arnhem, chez Iean Ieansz. 1613, folio, [2]-124 leaves, the four plates were erroneously bound in the quires, full old vellum (slightly later binding ? with renewed endpapers ?, very slight marks of handling). A very good copy of this second edition in French of this superb work (original edition of the translation by Louis Meigret: Paris, 1557) in which Dürer, following his second trip to Italy and after having seen the works of Vinci, applies anthropometry to the arts. In it, he addresses the study of the proportions of various human physical types: well-proportioned adults of both sexes at various ages, the more specific study of "small fat people", "tall skinny people", "wide" and "short" as well as the movement of their bodies in space. More than a hundred large full-page woodcuts of men, women and some children studied according to various tables of measurement. With diagrams, studies of heads or hands in texto.
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