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Varia conmensuracion para le escultura y arquitectura

Arfe y Villafañe, Juan de, 1535-1603 · 1675 · En Madrid : Por Francisco Sanz ... : A costa de la viuda de Bernardo Sierra, mercader de libros ... · 204 pictures

A Spanish treatise on proportion for sculptors, silversmiths and architects by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, reissued in Madrid in 1675 for craftsmen learning to measure figures and buildings. Woodcuts set the human torso and limbs inside ruled grids, stack compass-drawn polygons and circles, and lay out fortress plans and a columned arch in elevation, with numbered margins and letterpress showing through.

Proportion (Art) · Geometrical drawing · Human figure in art · Architectural drawing

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