Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1907)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, Maclehose, Louisa S, Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 246
INTERIOR OF A SCULPTORS STUDIO IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY With illustrations of methods of measurement USE OF FULL-SIZED MODELS 193 side, and treated in a similar fashion the front and back of theblock, bringing these to the shape of the front and back of thedesired figure. The block would then,… … Fig. II.—Two views of unfinished Greek marble statue blocked out on the ancient system.In quarries on Mount Pentelicus, Athens. the front or back or from the sides, present the requiredoutlines, but the section of it would still be square in everypart—there would be no rounding off. The sketches.…
Architecture · Sculpture · Painting · Art
Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
