A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 64
tle finger.HfjxvQ—(Cubitus) from elbow to tips of fingers. MR. Marshalls rule of proportion. 41 Galen, as an anatomist, founded his statement on the bones;and no doubt every sculptor who has relied upon safer andsounder knowledge of the figure than his own eye and feelingfor proportion afforded,… … Fig. 32a.—Prometheus carting a Skeleton.From an antique yeni. Mr. John Marshall, F.R.S., the Professor of Anatomy at theRoyal Academy, has invented a rule of proportion of which theunit is one inch, the length of the top bone of the middle finger,and according to which the general height of the…
Sculpture, Ancient
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