Book Information

Title:	"Method for Learning Drawing: Where the General Rules of this Great Art are Given, and Precepts to Acquire Knowledge of It and Become Proficient in a Short Time: Enriched with One Hundred Plates Representing Different Parts of the Human Body After Raphael and the Other Great Masters, Several Academic Figures Drawn from Nature by M. Cochin, the Proportions and Measurements of the Most Beautiful Antique Statues to be Seen in Italy, and Some Studies of Animals and Landscape"
Author:	Jombert, Charles-Antoine 1712-1784.
Publication Year:	1784
Source:	https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008513026

About this book:

This book is a comprehensive method for learning drawing, published in Paris in 1754 by Charles-Antoine Jombert.

It covers various aspects of artistic training, including anatomical study and proportions (emphasizing human figures, including children and distinctions between sexes and ideal types), different drawing techniques and materials (like pencil, pen, washes, and types of paper), and detailed analyses of famous ancient sculptures (such as the Farnese Hercules and Venus de Medici) as ideal models for study.

The text also touches on the importance of drawing from nature and the use of mechanical aids like the camera obscura for copying and achieving accurate perspective, concluding with a privilege granted by the King for its publication.

Book Information

Don't miss a post! Subscribe to our mailing list.