William Turner, Lecture Diagram 1 and 2: Cross-Sections of the Human Body (after Albrecht Dürer), 1810
As Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy, Turner began Lecture 1 with a discussion of how the rules of geometry “may be admitted to aid the bones of art, namely anatomy”. Based on an illustration from Four Books on the Proportion of the Human Body (1528) by Albrecht Dürer, Turner’s first diagram is “a plan of a figure viewed at the feet horizontally, each circle is that which a horizontal section would produce at different well known heights and proportions”. Source: Tate. More to see and read: Socks Studio
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