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Duval's artistic anatomy

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A concise, artist-focused manual distilled from lecture courses, presenting anatomy as a tool for drawing and modelling by beginning with the skeleton and explaining joint mechanics, muscular masses, and their effects on surface form and movement. It interleaves plates with explanatory text and urges hands-on study of bones, skeletons, casts, and living models to correlate deeper structures with visible contours. Practical demonstrations of motions such as forearm rotation illustrate underlying mechanisms. Short sections address facial angle and cranial form from an anthropological perspective. The aim is to sharpen observation and justify the why of visible forms.

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Title: Duval's artistic anatomy

Completely revised with additional original illustrations

Author: Mathias-Marie Duval

Editor: Andrew Melville Paterson

Release date: January 20, 2026 [eBook #77743]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1905

Credits: Tim Lindell, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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DUVAL’S ARTISTIC
ANATOMY.

Completely Revised with additional Original Illustrations.

Edited and Amplified by
A. MELVILLE PATERSON, M.D.

LATE DERBY PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
New York and London