Albinus on Anatomy

Robert Beverly Hale, Terence Coyle

• Editorial: Dover Publications
• Año: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486318868
• Categoría: Art
• Categoría: Teaching Art

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.

CHAPTER ONE

THE BONES AND MUSCLES OF THE BODY

THE SKELETON, FRONT VIEW

1. Frontal bone

2. Superciliary eminence

3. Orbit

4. Nasal bone

5. Superior maxillary (Maxilla, upper jaw)

6. Inferior maxillary (Mandible, lower jaw)

7. Clavicle

8. Acromion process of scapula

9. Coracoid process of scapula

10. Scapula

11. Sternum

12. Humerus

13. Radius

14. Ulna

15. Carpals

16. Metacarpals

17. Phalanges

18. High point of pelvis

19. Iliac tubercle (Wide point)

20. Parietal bone

21. Temporal bone

22. Zygomatic (Malar, cheek bone)

23. Mastoid process of temporal bone

24. Ramus of mandible

25. Cervical vertebrae

26. First rib

27. Fifth rib

28. Thoracic (dorsal) vertebrae

29. Line where rib meets cartilage

30. Tenth rib

31. Lumbar vertebrae

32. Iliac crest

33. Anterior superior iliac spine (Front point)

34. Ilium of pelvis

35. Sacrum

36. Pubis

37. Great trochanter of femur

38. Ischium

39. Lesser trochanter of femur

40. Shaft (body) of femur

41. Patella

42. Outer epicondyle of femur

43. Tibia (Shin bone)

44. Fibula

45. Outer (lateral) malleolus of fibula (Outer ankle)

46. Tarsals

47. Metatarsals

48. Phalanges

49. Calcaneus (Heel bone)

THE SKELETON, BACK VIEW

1. Occipital bone

2. Atlas (First cervical vertebra)

3. Axis (Second cervical vertebra)

4. First rib

5. Clavicle (Collar bone)

6. Acromion process of scapula

7. Humerus

8. Radius

9. Ulna

10. Styloid process of ulna

11. Carpals

12. Metacarpals

13. Phalanges

14. Olecranon of ulna (Elbow)

15. Fifth rib

16. Line of angle of ribs

17. Tip of tenth rib

18. Lumbar vertebrae

19. High p...