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אנטומיה לאמן: Anatomy For the Artist by Jeno Barcsay. London: Spring Books, 1967 - Anatomy For the Artist a volume which has come to be considered one of the most important and comprehensive contributions to the subject of artistic anatomy available. Jeno Barcsay Professor of Applied Anatomy at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, who has a long and distinguished career in this field, now brings all his knowledge and experience of teaching to bear in presenting to the student, in one volume, all the essentials of such a complex and difficult subject. Anatomy is a comparatively new branch of study in the graphic arts. Before the sixteenth century anatomical representations of the humau body were confined to stumbling scientific and philosophical probings of a subject which had little in the way of documentation. In the sixteenth century the first important eflForts were made to free anatomical drawing for consideration solely as a means of scientific study. In the hands of such men as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian and Dürer, it was used in the service of an art which had never since classical times produced such magnificent examples of naturalistic figure painting, drawing and sculpiure.  hardcover with DJ and  slipcase 25x33 cm 266 pp + 141 pp of plates good condition