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Hale, Robert Beverly was born on January 29, 1901 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Herbert Dudley and Margaret Curzon (Marqu) Hale.
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Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters Paperback Robert Hale (Author)Terence Coyle (Author) Robert Beverly Hale (Author)
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A book whose sales have not diminished but rather increased dramatically since its publication 45 years ago, this bestselling classic is the ultimate manual of drawing taught by the late Robert Beverly Hale, who’s famed lectures and classes at New York City’s Art Student League captivated artists and art educators from around the world. Faithfully producing and methodically analyzing 100 master drawings—including works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rodin, Goya, and Rembrandt among others—Hale shows how these artists tackled basic problems such as line, light and planes, mass, position and thrust, and anatomy. With detailed analytical captions and diagrams, every lesson is clearly delineated and illustrated. Throughout, also, is commentary that sheds light on the creative process of drawing and offers deep insight into the unsurpassed achievements of the masters.
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(Beautifully illustrated with plates of the masters' works.)
Beautifully illustrated with plates of the masters' works.
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This beautiful, enthralling book represents the rarest of human achievements: a work of great scientific merit that is a magnificent work of art as well. Bernard Siegfried Albinus was the greatest descriptive anatomist of the eighteenth century. Over a period of twenty years, he produced two volumes of drawings, Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body and Tables of the Human Bones, that have long been revered for their beauty, skill, artistry, and anatomical accuracy. This finely made edition makes them available to the general public at an easily affordable price for the first time since their publication in 1747. All 80 of the original copperplate engravings, containing over 230 individual illustrations, have been painstakingly reproduced for this edition. The muscles and bones of the human body are rendered individually and in related groups from varying perspectives, enabling art students to compare the forms; to analyze their size, shape, direction, and attachments; and to observe with absolute clarity the shape and position of bodily forms. Eighty modern diagrams matching each plate identify each bone and muscle in the most common medical terms. The eminent medical historian Charles Singer praised Albinus' brilliant accomplishment: "He introduced a new standard of accuracy into practical anatomy and of accuracy and beauty into anatomical illustrations." Singer adds: "These illustrations, with their finely wrought ornamental backgrounds, were intended for artists as well as for physicians, and no finer work of their type has ever been executed." Introductory essays by the well-known artist and art educator Terence Coyle — including a new introduction to the Dover edition — engagingly explore Albinus' life and work. Following these, Robert Beverly Hale, one of America's best-known teachers of figure drawing and anatomy, brilliantly appraises Albinus' technique and demonstrates how artists today can use his anatomical studies to draw from life, a special feature that makes this magnificent book truly indispensable for artists and art students at every level.
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Hale, Robert Beverly was born on January 29, 1901 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Herbert Dudley and Margaret Curzon (Marqu) Hale.
AB, Columbia University, 1923. Postgraduate, Columbia School Architecture, Fontainebleau. Postgraduate, Art Students League.
Associate editor, Art News, New York City, 1941-1949;
organizer department American art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1948;
associate curator, head department, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1949-1957;
curator American painting and sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1958-1966;
curator emeritus, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1968-1985;
member visiting committee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1973-1985. Lecturer artistic anatomy Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1968-1985. Instructor drawing, lecturer anatomy Art Students League, 1943-1985.
Adjunct Professor drawing Columbia University, 1946-1967. Lecturer artistic anatomy Cooper Union, 1973-1985, professor art, 1976-1985. President Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1959-1966, trustee,1966-1985.
Vice president New York City Art Festival, 1961-1985. Member art committee Chase Manhattan Bank, 1960-1985.
(A book whose sales have not diminished but rather increas...)
( This beautiful, enthralling book represents the rarest ...)
(Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters Paperback Robert H...)
(Beautifully illustrated with plates of the masters' works.)
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Member Art Students League (vice president 1941-1943, honorary life member), American Fine Arts Society (trustee), American Federation Arts (international committee), American Water Color Society (honorary member, Dolphin gold medal 1981), Columbia University Faculty Club, Century Club (New York City).
Married Barbara Barnes, November 11, 1941 (divorced). Married Niké Mylonas, December 8, 1962. Children: Alexander Curzon, Evelyn Everett.