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    Albinus on Anatomy
    Albinus on Anatomy
    Albinus on Anatomy
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    Albinus on Anatomy

    By Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle

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    This beautiful, enthralling book represents the rarest of human achievements: a work of great scientific merit that is a magnificent work of art as well. Bernard Siegfried Albinus was the greatest descriptive anatomist of the eighteenth century. Over a period of twenty years, he produced two volumes of drawings, Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body and Tables of the Human Bones, that have long been revered for their beauty, skill, artistry, and anatomical accuracy. This finely made edition makes them available to the general public at an easily affordable price for the first time since their publication in 1747.
    All 80 of the original copperplate engravings, containing over 230 individual illustrations, have been painstakingly reproduced for this edition. The muscles and bones of the human body are rendered individually and in related groups from varying perspectives, enabling art students to compare the forms; to analyze their size, shape, direction, and attachments; and to observe with absolute clarity the shape and position of bodily forms. Eighty modern diagrams matching each plate identify each bone and muscle in the most common medical terms.
    The eminent medical historian Charles Singer praised Albinus' brilliant accomplishment: "He introduced a new standard of accuracy into practical anatomy and of accuracy and beauty into anatomical illustrations." Singer adds: "These illustrations, with their finely wrought ornamental backgrounds, were intended for artists as well as for physicians, and no finer work of their type has ever been executed."
    Introductory essays by the well-known artist and art educator Terence Coyle — including a new introduction to the Dover edition — engagingly explore Albinus' life and work. Following these, Robert Beverly Hale, one of America's best-known teachers of figure drawing and anatomy, brilliantly appraises Albinus' technique and demonstrates how artists today can use his anatomical studies to draw from life, a special feature that makes this magnificent book truly indispensable for artists and art students at every level.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 27, 2013
    ISBN9780486318868
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      Albinus on Anatomy - Robert Beverly Hale

      ALBINUS ON ANATOMY

      With 80 Original Albinus Plates

      BY ROBERT BEVERLY HALE AND TERENCE COYLE

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC

      NEW YORK

      ROBERT BEVERLY HALE, considered America’s preeminent teacher of artistic anatomy in his lifetime, was born in Boston in 1901. He studied at Columbia University and at the Art Students League with George Bridgman. Hale served from 1941 to 1949 on the staff of Art News. He was Instructor of Drawing and Lecturer on Anatomy at the Art Students League from 1944 until his retirement in 1982. Hale also lectured in anatomy at Columbia University from 1945 to 1967, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1968 to 1975, and at Cooper Union from 1973 to 1978. In 1948 he became the first Curator of American Painting and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, eventually attaining the title of Curator Emeritus. In 1977, Hale was awarded the first New York City Mayor’s Award of Honor in Art and Culture. He was an artist and, in addition, a poet, publishing frequently in The New Yorker. Hale died in 1985. His books include Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters, Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters (with Terence Coyle), and Artistic Anatomy (as translator and editor of Dr. Paul Richer’s classic text).

      TERENCE COYLE was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts and educated at Columbia University and the Art Students League, where he studied with and assisted Robert Beverly Hale. Since 1974, Coyle has taught figure and portrait painting at the Art Students League. He lectured in artistic anatomy and drawing at New York University in 1979, and since then has been the lecturer in artistic anatomy at the National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York. Coyle teaches an annual workshop in figure and portrait painting at the Scottsdale Artist School in Arizona, In 1985, he compiled and edited the Hale Lectures in the book Master Class in Figure Drawing. Terence Coyle’s paintings have been highly acclaimed and have been acquired by the New York State Museum in Albany, the Museum of the City of New York, and Fordham University.

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1979 by Watson-Guptill Publications.

      Introduction to Dover Edition Copyright © 1988 by Terence Coyle.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 1988, is an unabridged and corrected republication of the work originally published by Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, in 1979, under the title Albinus on Anatomy. The present edition is published by special arrangement with Watson-Guptill Publications, 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036. A new Introduction to the Dover Edition by Terence Coyle has been written specially for this edition.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697–1770.

      Albinus on anatomy.

      Reprint. Originally published: New York : Watson-Guptill, 1979.

      Includes index.

      1. Anatomy, Human—Early works to 1800. 2. Anatomy, Artistic— Early works to 1800. I. Hale, Robert Beverly, 1901–1985. II. Coyle, Terence. III. Title.

      QM21.A28  1988  611    88-20424

      ISBN-13: 978-0-486-25836-2

      ISBN-10: 0-486-25836-X

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      25836X15

      www.doverpublications.com

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      We wish to thank the New York Academy of Medicine for the generous use of their material and facilities, and especially Mrs. Alice D. Weaver, head of the Malloch Rare Book and History Room, for her gracious assistance. We also were fortunate in obtaining the fine photographic expertise of Lee Boltin, which was of essential importance to the quality of the finished book.

      We are indebted to Don Holden, Editorial Director of Watson-Guptill Publications, who first encouraged the idea of the book and initiated the project, and to Marsha Melnick, who organized and guided our initial efforts. Finally, we wish to thank our editor, Bonnie Silverstein, whose unwavering patience and efficiency saw us through to completion, and Bob Fillie, for the excellent design of the book.

      INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION

      When the first edition of Albinus on Anatomy came out in 1979 there was strong evidence of a growing interest in the study of the human figure. Today, this focus is greater than ever. The study of basic anatomy has always been an important point of departure for the study and creation of artistic form. In the present day, Artistic Anatomy is taught as a basic course in most art schools and art departments of universities. Art educators realize more than ever that without a knowledge of basic structure and muscular function, it is difficult for an artist to understand the great mysteries of design common to all living creatures. The works of such masters as Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, Rubens, Raphael, and Degas reflect this basic knowledge and understanding of the relationship of form and function. In his Trattato della Pittura, Leonardo wrote that a knowledge of bone structure and muscular articulation was essential for the artist to become aware of the true nature and design of organic form. He advised that through such study artists can avoid the wooden and graceless nudes that seem rather as if you were looking at a sack of nuts than a human form, or a bundle of radishes rather than the muscles of nudes.

      Robert Beverly Hale felt that the beautifully detailed plates of Albinus’ classic study clearly and accurately illustrated the subject matter of the famous Hale Lecture Series which he was then conducting at the Art Students League. In that context Hale reminds us, Drawing, which is much like a language, is the art of communication with others through the illusion of shapes, and you learn to draw, paint and sculpt by coming to shape conclusions. We draw what we know and not what we see. And when we know something, we begin to see it as it really is. Drawing is going past the layman’s knowledge. If you don’t know what you are drawing, how can you have a shape conception? If we can’t identify the anatomical parts, we don’t know they exist, and if we don’t know they exist, we can’t draw, paint or sculpt them.

      Robert Beverly Hale died in 1985, but the legend of America’s greatest teacher of Artistic Anatomy has continued to grow. In response to an unparalleled demand for Hale material, Rosina Florio, the Director of the Art Students League, had tapes of the Hale Lecture Series restored and made available to the public on videotape. And in that same year, just before he died, Hale’s lectures were published in book form as Master Class in Figure Drawing. It is very fitting, and Hale would be very pleased, that this Dover edition of Albinus on Anatomy will round out the Hale legacy by making this invaluable work available to an ever

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