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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- On the Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Proportion Theory: Disciplinary Intersections -- 2. Gallucci: Translator, Academician, Pedagogue -- 3. Ut pictura poesis: Sister Arts -- 4. Physiognomics: The Science of Passion -- 5. From Microcosm to Macrocosm -- 6. Proportion Studies: Reception and Legacy -- Contents -- Dedication -- Life of Albrecht Dürer -- Preface to Readers -- Book Five -- 1. On the Utility of this Doctrine -- 2. On the Differences of Humans with Respect to Countries, Sex, and Age -- 3. On the Beauty of Human Bodies, Especially Women 4. The Figure of a Strong Man -- 5. How the Figure of a Timid Man Should Be Painted -- 6. How One Should Paint a Furious and Angry Man -- 7. The Figure of a Man, Who Is by Nature Cold and Wet, therefore, Meek and Humble, Feeble, Slow, Quiet, and Effeminate -- 8. How an Ingenious Man Should Be Painted -- 9. The Figure of an Uncouth Man Compared to One with Great Intelligence -- 10. The Figure and Painting of an Effeminate Man, Soft by Nature and also through Incident -- 11. How a Humble Man Should Be Painted, and One Who Is Shameful, either by Nature or Chance, and a Woman Again 12. The Figure of an Insolent and Presumptuous Man -- 13. The Figure of a Cheerful Man -- 14. The Figure of a Melancholic and Grieved Man -- 15. The Figure of a Cruel and Inhumane Man -- 16. The Figure of a Flatterer -- 17. The Figure of a Desperate Woman -- 18. The Figure of a Man Full of Astonishment -- 19. The Figure of Beastly or Savage Men -- 20. The Figure of a Fraud -- 21. The Figure of a Deceitful Man, and of a Mean, Miserable, and Cowardly Man -- 22. The Figure of a Wicked Man, Who, in Speaking, Says Impertinent Things -- 23. The Figure of an Insane Man Who Is, at the Same Time, Wicked 24. The Figure of Big Eater, and of One of Great Memory -- 25. The Figure of a Loquacious Man -- 26. The Figure of a Drowsy Man -- 27. The Figure of a Libidinous Man -- 28. The Figure of an Envious Man -- 29. The Figure of an Ugly Man and Woman -- 30. On the Different Feet of Men, and Those Which Are Suitable -- 31. On the Diversity of Heels or Ankles Compared to the Figure that [the Painter] Wishes to Represent -- 32. On the Diversity of Legs with Respect to the Different Figures They Want to Make -- 33. On the Diversity of Knees Appropriate to Different Figures 34. Which Thighs and Buttocks are Appropriate for Which Figures -- 35. Which Limbs and Stomachs Belong to Which Figures -- 36. Which Back and Ribs Suit Which Figures -- 37. Different Measures of the Stomach, Chest, and Belly that Suit Different Figures -- 38. On Some Correspondences that Some Members Have between Them -- 39. How the Chest and Shoulders Should Be Done in Several Different Figures -- 40. On the Shoulders and Chest Most Appropriate to Different Figures -- 41. On Arms and Hands Appropriate to Different Figures -- 42. Which Fingernails Are Appropriate to Different Figures.
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Gallucci's commentary on Dürer's four books on human proportion : renaissance proportion theory / / Giovanni Paolo Gallucci ; translated with an introduction by James Hutson
