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Gérard Audran

Les Proportions du Corps Humain mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité (The Proportions of the Human Body Measured on the Most Beautiful Figures from Antiquity), 1683

Description

Maker

  • Gérard Audran, 1640-1703, French

Title

Les Proportions du Corps Humain mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité (The Proportions of the Human Body Measured on the Most Beautiful Figures from Antiquity)

Year

1683

Medium

Engravings on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • ink

Supports

  • paper | leather

Dimensions

41.6 x 29.5 x 1.9 cm (16 3/8 x 11 5/8 x 13/16 inches) thickness

Identification

Edition

Frist edition

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Books

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2007.63

Projects & Publications

Publications

Pat Steir

Drawing Out of Line

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

Gérard Audran’s book The Proportions of the Human Body reveals the ongoing reverence for classical sculpture, which competed with live models for the attention of art students. While working with a live model allowed an endless variety of poses, famous statues like the Apollo Belvedere, the Laocoön, and the Medici Venus (seen here) offered examples of bodily perfection deemed worthy of admiration by centuries of artists and aesthetes. Audran traveled to Italy and visited the Vatican
and Capitoline Museums in Rome, creating this book to make those collections more accessible to other artists and students. In each case, he provided engraved views of the work from several angles, allowing readers to “turn” the model and study its measurements from all sides.

Pat Steir

February 19 - July 3, 2010

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