Facial Angles (Camper)
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Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures on this subject by the Amsterdam professor of anatomy Petrus Camper on the 1st and 8 August in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy called the Teken-akademie.
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Author | Petrus Camper |
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Original title | Report of the content of two lectures (Dutch: Berigt van den zaaklyken inhoud van twee lessen) |
Illustrator | Petrus Camper, engraved by Reinier Vinkeles |
Country | Netherlands |
Language | Dutch, French |
Subject | Facial angles in portraiture through the centuries |
Genre | Art History, Drawing lessons |
Publisher | R. Wild & J. Altheer, Utrecht |
Publication date | 1770, 1791 (engravings) |
Media type | Print (Hardcover), Online version of original text available from the DBNL and Google books |
Pages | Original is a report of a few pages; the posthumous book is longer with notes and engravings |
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