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Description: | RU "Artis Apelleae, liber hic, studiosa iuventus,
Aptata ingenio fert rudimenta tuo:
Hoc duce carpe viam, membratim, tota figura
Discitur, his gradibus scandere ad alta dabit" CRE BLOEMAERT, Frederik; (Dutch; 1610-1669) AFTER BLOEMAERT, Abraham; (Dutch; 1564-1651) PUB VISSCHER, Nicolaes; (Dutch; 1618 - 1709?) Abraham Bloemaert was an important teacher in Utrecht, and was responsible for designing several sets of prints for artists to use for inspiration, etched by his son Frederick. This plate is the title to the Prima Pars, or first part of Bloemaert's drawing book. The Latin inscription translates:
This book, studious youth, provides the rudiments of the art of Apelles in a form fit for your genius:
Learn this, take this way, limb by limb the whole figure is to be learned, and by these steps will the path to excellence be ascended
Although the image appears to show a young artist drawing a reclining man, the inscription implies that the task for the young artist is to learn the structure of the whole body by first studying it "membratim", or limb by limb. In the studio we see various casts of sculpture and made from parts of the body that could have been used to construct the image before us. Most obvious is the bearded man's head that hangs on the wall, but corresponds to that of the man apparently posing for the youth. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | DRAWING BOOK : ARTIST : ARTIST'S STUDIO : STUDIO PRACTICE : UTRECHT SCHOOL : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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