Author Description

"Since the earliest beginnings of art, painters and sculptors have been concerned with the depiction of the human body, and one of the first challenges confronting every art student is the problem of learning to represent the human form, regardless of the style or direction he intends to pursue in his mature work. The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate Michelangelo's system of fashioning the human body -- a system to be studied, analyzed, copies, and perhaps even opposed or rejected outright. As one of the greatest artists of all time, and one constantly engaged in the subject of human form, Michelangelo has much to teach us about anatomy..." James Beck