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On the Symmetry of the Human Body Facsimile Edition

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On the Symmetry of the Human Body (Della simmetria dei corpi humani), credited to "Alberto Durero, pittore e geometra chiarissimo" (a very clear painter and geometer) was printed in Venice by Domenico Nicolini da Sabbio in 1591, nearly a hundred years after Dürer traveled to Venice to study the human body with Italian artists. Dürer's diagrams and illustrations reveal Leonardo Da Vinci's influence. Copiously illustrated, the work explains Dürer's views of the proper aesthetics of the human body and how it was to be displayed correctly within works of art in four books.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "On the Symmetry of the Human Body": Di Alberto Durero pittore e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro facsimile edition, published by Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, 1973

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Di Alberto Durero pittore e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro

Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, 1973

  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, On the Symmetry of the Human Body: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

The full title is: "Di Alberto Durero pittore e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro. Nuouamente tradotti dalla lingua latina nella italiana, da M. Gio. Paolo Gallucci salodiano. Et accresciuti del quinto libro, nel quale si tratta, con quai modi possano i pittori, & scoltori mostrare la diuersita della natura de gli huomini, & donne, & con quali le passioni, che sentono per li diuersi accidenti, che li occorrono. Hora di nuouo stampati. Opera a pittori e scoltori non solo vtile, ma necessaria, e ad ogn’altro, che di tal materia desidera acquistarsi perfetto giudicio. In Venetia 1591".

The commentary volume is not included in this facsimile edition.

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