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*** A REAL TREASURE! ***
Symmetry - Instruction in Measurement
Albrecht Dürer - 1532
1 PDF File | 637 MB | RS & FF
Albrecht Dürer (1471Heroturko??“1528), German painter, engraver, and draftsman, was the most celebrated artist of the Northern Renaissance. His reputation spread throughout Europe during his lifetime, beyond his native city of Nuremberg, a thriving center of art and commerce. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer became deeply involved in scientific and mathematical studies. DürerHeroturko??™s application of scientific principles to the creation of art, especially as recorded in his Underweysung der Messung (Instruction in measurement), marks the beginning of art theory in Northern Europe. This Octavo Edition presents a sammelband (or volume in which multiple works are bound together) of the first two books of DürerHeroturko??™s Von menschlicher Proportion (Four books of human proportions) in the Latin translation of 1532 (De Symmetria), along with the revised and expanded 1538 second edition of Underweysung der Messung. Other copies of this assemblage are recorded.
English Translations
De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis
Humanorum Corporum
Underweysung der Messung
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De Symmetria / Underweysung der Messung
Underweysung der Messung (1525; revised and expanded, 1538)
was the first scientific book Dürer published. It presents a wide
range of geometric subjects, as indicated by the original German
title: Underweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt,
in Linien, Ebnen und gantzen Corporen (Instruction in measurement,
with a compass and rule, in lines, planes, and solids). The
basics of linear, plane, and solid geometry often lay a foundation
for descriptions of practical applications for architecture and art,
including construction of columns, design of alphabets, and even
a model for a bishopHeroturko??™s crosier. The bookHeroturko??™s most notable achievement,
a topic that found crucial enlargement in the 1538 second
edition, is the analysis of perspective.
That edition, reproduced here, is the first complete printing of
DürerHeroturko??™s final version of the study. To the first edition of 1525, it adds
several corrections, lengthy expansions, and twenty-two new illustrations
designed by Dürer. The second edition, for instance,
offers an improved calculation of π as 3B/h. Also among the new
material is the well-known woodcut of an artist making a picture
of a reclining nude with drastic foreshortening in order to demonstrate
the operation of a perspective-grid. To modern eyes, this figure
of an artist mechanically drawing a voluptuous nude seems
ironic, undercutting the instructional nature of the handbook, if
not the attitude toward art as technique in generalHeroturko??”and it may
have looked that way to Renaissance eyes as well.
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