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The Sculptor and Art Student's
Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form With Measurements in Feet and Inches of Full Grown Figures
of Both Sexes and Various Ages
The Plates Reproduced by John Sutcliffe
From the Original Treatise entitled Polycletus
by Dr. Gottfried Schadow
The Text Translated from the German by James J. Wright
Published in 1883.
30 plates plus a 25 page introduction and treatise.
This famous book by a classical German sculptor (the figures on the Brandenburg Gate
- among many other works) is next to impossible to find. It is based on the pioneering
work by Greek Sculptor Polycletus. This is an 1883 translation of the German Atlas Zu Polyclet Oder Von Den Maassen Des Menschen Nach Dem Geschlechte Und Alter
The book is 12 1/2 by 19 3/4 inches and each plate is a seamless
double page tipped in. The only way to turn it into an e-book was to
photograph the double wide pages to show them fully, then to scan details.
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"As you probably know from some of my previous postings, I'm fascinated with human proportions. There's a really, really good book on human proportions for sculptors called the "Art-Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form". Unfortunately, it was published in 1883, and it's very hard to come by. When copies do show up at ABE books or on eBay, they go for hundreds of dollars, sometimes even more....
...In this case I just happen to think this is a great resource that more people should know about."
Check out the rest of iSculpt.org for more information about human proportions.
Another mention of the book is on a page of the study of Human Proportions throught the ages: Proportionslehre from the Luitpold-Gymnasium München:
"Leonardo illustrierte eine der bedeutendsten Proportionslehren der Renaissance,"De Divina Proportione", des Mathematikers Luca Pacioli. Auch Dürer stützt sich in seinen "Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion" auf Vitruv, dessen Schema er weitgehend übernimmt und verfeinert. Alle diese Proportionssysteme gehen aus vom Körper des Menschen als Maßeinheit und drücken seine Teile aus als Quotienten dieses Ganzen.
Wohl einer der ersten, die von diesem Denken abweichen, ist der Hofbildhauer unter Friedrich Wilhelm IV., J.G. Schadow. In "Polyklet oder von den Maßen des Menschen" verwendet er das Zollmaß, also ein absolutes Maß, das von außen an den Körper herangetragen wird. Darüber hinaus ist er einer der ersten, der Interesse dokumentiert am Wachstum des Körpers. Damit verläßt die Proportionslehre den Bereich des künstlerischen Interesses und schafft theoretische Grundlagen wie sie für die Normierung von Konfektionsgrößen in der industriellen Produktion von Kleidung notwendig sind."
"Leonardo illustrated one of the most significant proportion lessons of the Renaissance, "De Divina Proportione", by the mathematician Luca Pacioli. Also Dürer based his "Four Books of Human Proportions" on Vitruvius, whose scheme he refined. All these proportions systems go from the human body as unit and define its parts as a ratio of the whole.
Undoubtedly one of the first to deviate from this thinking was the Court Sculptor to Friedrich Wilhelm IV, J.G. Schadow. In "Polykleitos or Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form ," he uses the Inch, an absolute measure which is outside the body to divise a system of measurement that doesn't rely on ratios. In addition, he is one of the first to publish an interest in the growth of the body. This leaves the teaching of proportion to the area of artistic interest and creates theoretical basis as for the normalization of clothing sizes which are necessary in the industrial production of clothing."
List of Plates
Plate I. First Sheet of Heads
Plate II. Second Sheet of Heads
Plate III. Birth and Four Months
Plate IV. Eight Months and One Year
Plate V. Eighteen Months Two Years and Thirty Months
Plate VI. Three Years and Four Years
Plate VII.Five Years and Six Years
Plate VIII. Seven Years and Eight Years
Plate IX. Nine Years and Ten Years
Plate X. Eleven Years and Twelve Years
Plate XI. Thirteen Years and Fourteen Years
Plate XII. Fifteen Years
Plate XIII. Seventeen Years
Plate XIV. Medium Height Male
Plate XV. Male
Plate XVI. Heros
Plate XVII. Female
Plate XVIII. Female Average Proportion
Plate XIX. Venus Medicis
Plate XX. Woman of Maximum Height
Plate XXI. Comparison of Females
Plate XXII. Third Sheet of Heads
Plate XXIII. Fourth Sheet of Heads
Plate XXIV. Fifth Sheet of Heads
Plate XXV. Proportion Drawing After Nature
Plate XXVI. Proportions of the Borghese Gladiator
Plate XXVII. Comparisons of Male Proportions
Plate XXVIII. First Table - Figure of Christ, Elgin Marbles Theseus, Pugilist by Canova
Plate XXIX. Second Table - Comparisons of Male Proportions
Plate XXX. Third Table - Comparisons Male and Female
The Sculptor and Art Student's
Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form
by Dr. Gottfried Schadow
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