Teaching Portraits with Method – the Technology of Grids, Compasses and Proportions in British Drawing Manuals

Manuals teaching how to draw a face and figure were translated into English from their original Dutch, Italian and French, and altered to focus especially on the skills of transferability, and the use of measurements in the practice of picture copying. The texts on proportions and ideal ratio were o...

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Main Author: Bénédicte Miyamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Bourgogne 2024-06-01
Series:Interfaces
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/8618
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