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Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body

Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body – Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Fondo Cicognara, 321 – Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, Vatican City State)

Venice (Italy) — Dürer's autograph: after 1494 Print: 1591

The human body in perfection: Dürer's work on human dimensions and proportions, inspired by Italian Renaissance art, as an artistic testimony to the humanistic ideal of beauty

  1. Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) wrote and illustrated the autograph of this work after 1494

  2. In 1591, the Venetian printer Domenico Nicolini da Sabbio (c. 1540 – after 1605) published the treatise in print

  3. In this work, Dürer explains how the human body should ideally be designed

Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body

Fondo Cicognara, 321 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, Vatican City State)
Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body – Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Fondo Cicognara, 321 – Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, Vatican City State)
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Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body

This wonderful Venetian print edition of Albrecht Dürer's (1471–1528) The Symmetry of the Human Body was printed in 1591 by Domenico Nicolini da Sabbio (c. 1540 – after 1605), a member of a prolific Venetian printing dynasty. On the title page of the edition, he praises Albrecht Dürer with the words “pittore e geometra chiarissimo” – as a particularly clear and precise painter and geometricist. About 100 years earlier, Dürer had studied the human body together with Italian Renaissance artists during his travels in Italy. It is therefore not surprising that the numerous illustrations in his treatise on the measurements and proportions of the human body show strong influences from Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). The dozens of woodcut diagrams and body depictions demonstrate to the reader how human figures should be designed in works of art. His aesthetic is characterized by extremely symmetrical, slim, and at the same time strong bodies, reflecting the humanistic beauty ideal of the Renaissance.

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Alternative Titles
Albrecht Dürer: Die Symmetrie des menschlichen Körpers
Vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion
De Symmetria partium in rectis formis humanorum corporum
Di Alberto Durero pittore e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro
Alberto Durero Della Simmetria dei Corpi Humani
Size / Format
288 pages / 31.8 × 22.9 cm
Origin
Italy
Date
Dürer's autograph: after 1494 Print: 1591
Language
Italian
Script
Printed humanistic minuscule
Illustrations
Diagrams and illustrations of the human body and its proportions, decorated initials
Artist / School
Available facsimile editions:
Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body – Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Fondo Cicognara, 321 – Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, Vatican City State)
#1 Di Alberto Durero pittore e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro
Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Milan, 1973
Facsimile Editions

#1 Di Alberto Durero pittore e geometra chiarissimo. Della simmetria dei corpi humani, libri quattro

Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Milan, 1973
Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body – Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Fondo Cicognara, 321 – Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, Vatican City State)
Albrecht Dürer: The Symmetry of the Human Body – Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Fondo Cicognara, 321 – Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican City, Vatican City State) Copyright Photos: Ziereis Facsimiles

Publisher: Gabriele Mazzotta Editore – Milan, 1973
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