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Successful Drawing (1951). Republished in a revised edition as Three Dimensional Drawing (16 new pages with technical material on perspective replacing the pictorial gallery sections) and reissued as a full facsimile of the original on May 4, 2012, from Titan Books. Drawing the Head and Hands (1956). Reissued as a full facsimile of the original ...
The drawing of The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right is a study for a painting. However, it is less in The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne than in studio copies of the master's composition that it is found, as indicated by the arrangement of the coiffure – i.e. the braid and veils covering it – absent from the painting ...
First-angle projection was widely used in the UK, but during World War II, British drawings sent to be manufactured in the USA, such as of the Rolls-Royce Merlin, had to be drawn in third-angle projection before they could be produced, e.g., as the Packard V-1650 Merlin. This meant that some British companies completely adopted third angle ...
Greuze's "Retour sur soi-même" was an example of a bad likeness of the head of an old woman, because classical drawing theory was applied which was based on a young adult male's head. Merely adding wrinkles and a costume cannot help a poor likeness. The Moor, an etching by Jan de Visscher after a drawing by his brother Cornelis
The Huffington Post reached out to historians across the country to create a list of women who deserve more recognition for their accomplishments.
Pieter Camper invented the "facial angle", a measure meant to determine intelligence among various species. According to this technique, a "facial angle" was formed by drawing two lines: one horizontally from the nostril to the ear; and the other perpendicularly from the advancing part of the upper jawbone to the most prominent part of the ...
In 1961, Danish Egyptologist Erik Iverson described a canon of proportions in classical Egyptian painting. [2] This work was based on still-detectable grid lines on tomb paintings: he determined that the grid was 18 cells high, with the base-line at the soles of the feet and the top of the grid aligned with hair line, [3] and the navel at the eleventh line. [4]