Figure drawing and composition : being a number of hints for the student and designer upon the treatment of the human figure by Richard G. Hatton (1895)
Hatton, Richard George, 1864-1926 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 174
to note how frequently in Greek works the position in which the shoulders are well back, with the elbows at the sides, and the hands held a little away, occurs. The upper part of the back is of all the body the part most liable to change, and it is virtually impossible to lay down rules governing… … Fig. 105. muscles on the scapula, the rhomboids between it and the back-bone, and the trapezius. It will be when the arms are brought forward and the muscles at the back are stretched that the form will be simplest ; most complex when the arms and shoulders are thrown back. In Raphael's draw- ings…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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