
Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines By Denis Diderot, Fortuné Barthélemy de Félice.From Wikipedia:The Encyclopaedia or Universal Dictionary of rational human knowledge, called Yverdon Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 q...

Seated nude. Standing nude.I mentioned this artist before. Now all the remaining paintings are listed for sale on Ebay.Click here to see the paintings for sale on Ebay.A blog dedicated to his work is wrwatkins.com...

An exhibition at the Leeds Museums and Galleries explores how scultptors have been taught to see in three dimensions.The show runs from October 10th, 2009 to October 10th, 2010 at the Henry Moore Institute in Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AH, United Kingdom.For other posts...

These photographs of a figure drawing class were probably taken at the Julian Ashton School in the 1920s.A copy of the first is for sale at the Josef Lebovic Gallery.Here is a sampling of his photographs from news.com.au.Article from vizwiki.com.Books at Amazon.comHarold Cazneaux: The quiet...

How to draw the head in perspective.Proportions of the head.The artist's vade-mecum: being the whole art of drawing, taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper-plates, To which is prefixed, an essay on drawing.R...

Figure Drawing Ebooks History of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York
Source: www.nationalacademy.org
One of the primary intentions of the founders of the National Academy was that it serve as an art school for the training of aspiring professional artists. There were few public art galleries and no art schools in New York at the time.

Abraham Bloemaert was a 16th Century Dutch mannerist painter and printmaker.One of his projects was an instruction book which consisted of 173 plates including some which were duplicates that were hand sepia colored.A copy of Oorspronkelyk en Vermaard Konstryk Tekenboek van Abraham Bloemaart is...

An interesting book because it describes 19th century ideals of beauty was written by Alexander Walker in 1840, Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman.Beauty; Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman Preceded by a Critical...

Two versions of the Tabulæ Anatomicæ 1714 by Batholomaeus Eustachius are available on Ebay.From Wikipedia:First published in 1714 by G. M. ...

Albert Carel Willink, the Dutch painter uses a very precise realistic method in his paintings.Sylvia Naakt in Stoel Gezetzen...

Irene Patten was an illustrator working around the mid century. She worked in a variety of genres including pictures of children, glamour girls and pin-ups...





















