The Male Nude: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Paris Academy

by Emmanuelle Burgerolles, Camille Debrabant, Georges Brunel, et al.

Painting in 18th-century France was centered on the Acad mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, where the drawing of the male human figure was at the core of the curriculum. Only after mastering the copying of drawings and engravings, and then casts of antique sculptures, would the student be allowed to progress to drawing the nude figure in the life class. The drawings produced there were so associated with the Academy that they came to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0900785683
• ISBN13: 9780900785689
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.0" x 9.7"