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Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer’s 'Four Books on Human Proportion'

Name: Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer’s 'Four Books on Human Proportion'
Author: James Hutson

James Hutson · 2020

74,648 words · about 5 h 14 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

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Author: James Hutson
Language: English
Published: 2020
Length: 74,648 words · about 5 h 14 min
Sections: 25 reader sections
Source: OAPEN Library (37214)
Text: Digital text
Rights: CC BY 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

Contents (25)

Front matter about 1 min
Contents about 5 min
Introduction about 2 h 9 min
Dedication about 22 min
Preface to Readers about 12 min
Book Five By M[onsignor] Giovanni Paolo Gallucci Salodiano about 12 min
Book Five 121 about 4 min
Book Five 123 about 4 min
Book Five 125 about 7 min
Book Five 129 Tasso, likewise, wrote in a canto of his Gerusalemme about 3 min
Book Five 131 about 3 min
Book Five 133 Virgil also speaks of Turnus about 3 min
Book Five 135 about 3 min
Book Five 137 For a while, she just watched him obliquely about 3 min
Book Five 139 about 3 min
Book Five 141 The boy and seeing, saw her heart's desire about 2 min
Book Five 143 the roses that her lovely face adorn about 8 min
Book Five 149 about 3 min
Book Five 151 about 3 min
Book Five 153 about 3 min
Book Five 155 about 7 min
Book Five 159 about 7 min
Book Five 163 about 7 min
Book Five 167 about 33 min
Book Five 185 about 27 min

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Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's ‘Four Books on Human Proportion'

Renaissance Proportion Theory

JAMES HUTSON

Acknowledgements ix On the Translation xi Introduction 1 1. Proportion Theory: Disciplinary Intersections 1 2. Gallucci: Translator, Academician, Pedagogue 26 3. Ut pictura poesis: Sister Arts 40 4. Physiognomics: The Science of Passion 50 5. From Microcosm to Macrocosm 58 6. Proportion Studies: Reception and Legacy 67 On the Symmetry of Human Bodies 83 Bibliography 187 List of Illustrations 201

Index of Proper Names 205

To my wife Piper and son Bishop

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