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Johnson Manuscript page - text 'De figuris humanis'
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p. 76 note 93
Rubens. The Power of Transformation, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna, 2017-18
cat. no. 28
Lusheck, Catherine, Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing, London, 2017
p. 200 (erroneously listed as fol. 75r)
fig. 4.17 (erroneously listed as fol. 75r) ...More
Thielemann, Andreas 'Rubens’ Traktat de imitatione staturaum’ in Ursula Rombach and Peter Seiler (eds.), Imitatio als Transformation. Theorie und Praxis der Antikennachahmung in der Frühen Neuzeit, Petersberg, 2012, pp. 95-146
p. 142 note 115
Vander Auwera, Joost, Sabine van Sprang and Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Rubens, a genius at work: the works of Peter Paul Rubens in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium reconsidered, Tielt 2007
p. 54
fig. 1 on p. 53
van der Meulen, Marjorie, Rubens copies after the Antique (CRLB), 3 vols, London 1994
vol. I, p. 72n12
Jaffé, Michael, Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, London 1966
vol. I, p. 40 ...Less
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Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink, Rubens’s original foliation: “1"; whole page, brown ink, accompanied by geometric diagrams:"+ / De figúris húmanis etc. […]" [not fully transcribed] [On the human figure etc. Cicero, Book I, De Natura Deorum. What disposition of the limbs, what cast of features, what shape or outline can be more beautiful than the human form? The human figure surpasses the form of all other living beings. See ibid. The elements of the human figure are: the cube, the circle [and the triangle]. From the cube, or the figure that is completely square, comes everything that is masculine, virile, and therefore heavy, robust, compact and athletic. And according to the degree that you deviate from the square form, the surface area contained by the four lines decreases in proportion, Quintilian, Book I, chapter 10. From the circle, or the perfect sphere, is created all that is feminine, and all that is of the flesh, muscular, flexible, twisting, rounded, curved and arched. No one denies that this form is the most beautiful. So Plato attests in Cicero, Book 1 of De Natura Deorum. From the triangle, the thorax is formed in robust bodies, and all human figures are based on the pyramid that forms the members.]; lower right corner, graphite, folio number: "1".
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