Dynamic Human Figures

Artworks illustrating the complexity of human form and movement through various sketches and etchings from different artists.

Above, two Indian wrestlers grapple each other in a bout; below, two dromadaries do much the same thing. Date: ancient

Pyramid of Men. Artist: Attributed to Juste de Juste (French (born Italy), Florence 1501-1559 Tours). Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28.5 x 21 cm). Date: 1540-50. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Standing Figure recto. Dimensions: overall: 29.7 x 23.6 cm (11 11/16 x 9 5/16 in.). Medium: black chalk on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: after Jacques Bellange.

Roman greaves still image. Illustrations. 1785. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Armor , To 499, Decoration and ornament, Roman, Arms & armament , Roman+ , To 499, Footwear , To 499, greaves

Dwarf with sword and mask, Jacques Callot, 1621 - 1625 print Dwarf, seen from the front, a hat with two feathers on the head, a mask for the face, the left hand on the hilt of his sword. This print is part of a series of 21 prints with grotesque figures; Almost all of those figures are dwarfs, many are bought. Nancy paper etching / engraving little people. hacking and thrusting weapons: sword. mask

Vatican City, Papal Court, Rome, Paolo, Giovanni Antonio de, Tempesta, Antonio, Imagini di moltes vergini Rom nel martirio, Roman martyrs, St. Prisca, verso - stamped, St. Prisca is tortured by three soldiers., print, prints, height 73 mm, width 114 mm, Italian, 1555 - 1630-08-05, print maker, printmaker, 1565 - 1630, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever van privilege

Giovanni Battista Bracelli, From Bizzarie di varie Figure, 1624 From Bizzarie di varie Figure

Nude Male Figure, Represented Frontally, with Arms Uplifted.

Above, two Indian wrestlers grapple each other in a bout; below, two dromadaries do much the same thing. Date: ancient

Cod. 11093, fol. 44r: Book on Swordsmanship and Wrestling Full page: wrestling scene; pen and brush drawing, Southwestern Germany, mid-15th c.

Lazio Viterbo Bagnaia Villa Lante76. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Jacques Callot, Two Pantaloons Dancing, c 1622 Two Pantaloons Dancing

Five putti playing with balls at a tree. Leaf 20 recto from a sketchbook with 30 sheets.

Young Boer, Anonymous, After Frederick Bloemaert, After Abraham Bloemaert, After 1635 - 1709 print A young man leans over a stick next to a flower bed. Netherlands (possibly) paper engraving farmers

Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The whims, the two pants looking at each other. Thirty-sixth number of the suite of 50 pieces engraved in Florence Lieure 249, Meaume 840). Eau-tie. 1617. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. 99607-14 Etching, engraving

Angels and a sword fight, c. 1700 - c. 1899 print Four angels who hold a magazine, an angel who hunts a hole with a spear and two men with dogs in a sword fight. The figures largely consist of curls (calligraphy). Netherlands paper etching angels. hunters hunting (N.B.: In 1988-1990 this notation denoted the concept of 43C11421 'hunters resting during the hunt'). hoofed animals: deer. hacking and thrusting weapons: sword. fighting

Jakob Gauermann's 1798 drawing depicts Hercules and Cacus using pencil, feather, and black ink.

Feldtbuch der Wundartzney, newlich getruckt und gebessert.

Creatures with strange faces and bodies engaging in a boxing match in front of a crowd. Etching.

Combat with Implements. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

Standing man with lute. Draughtsman: Charles Rochussen. Dating: 1824 - 1894. Measurements: h 91 mm × w 57 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Paris, Boutemie, Denis, Twelve months, June, Personification of the month of June. A grotesque figure with a halo around her head. The figure is dancing and holding a crescent moon and a drum with hieroglyphs in her hands., print, prent, ornamentprent, prints, prenten, ornamentprenten, height 109 mm, width 66 mm, print maker, prentmaker, 1633 - 1643, paper, papier, etching, etsen, Publication (Event), Publicatie, publisher, uitgever

Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The whims, the two pants turning their backs. Thirty-fifth number of the suite of 50 pieces engraved in Florence" (Lieure 248, Meaume 838). Etching. 1617. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99607-12 Etching, engraving

Bearded man with a rack over his shoulder, to the right, from behind. Draughtsman: Harmen ter Borch. Dating: 1652. Place: Zwolle. Measurements: h 95 mm × w 67 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Ancient Germanic deities. Svetovid, Slavic war god with four heads worshipped by the Rugians, and Triglav, three-headed Slavic god, worshipped by the Vandals. Suantovito, Trigla. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1844.

Traveler who gives a letter to a putto, 1696 The man, in travel mantle with staff, is in a hilly landscape at the putto. This is reading under a tree with its arrows and bowed beside him. Sketch in an oval. Page 13 Recto from a sketchbook with 30 sheets. paper. chalk 'en route', traveller under way. cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'. letter, envelope

Mathias Beutler, Ornament Ornament

Underweissung der Proportzion und stellung der possen. Binder: Bound by William Chatto. Designer: Designed by Erhard Schön (German, Nuremberg 1491-1542 Nuremberg). Dimensions: Overall: 6 15/16 x 5 3/8 x 3/8 in. (17.7 x 13.7 x 1 cm). Printer: Printed by Christoff Zell (German, active Nuremberg, 1524-43). Date: 1538.As geometrical knowledge increasingly became understood as critical to the development of skills in measurement and representation, many German artists published instructional books that reflected their mastery of geometry and perspective. Collected, copied, traded, and circulated throughout European workshops, these popular books filled a gap in artisanal education by purporting to teach object makers to conceive and design complex forms in three dimensions. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Old Man and Death Made 1651 Bohemia. Etching on ivory wove paper . Wenceslaus Hollar

Combat with Sword. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

A 1631-1638 ink and feather sketch by Valentin Wagner depicting Mr. Jost engaged in a stick fight with two figures, showing motion, body positions, and interaction.

Comic sculptures in the Royal Monastery in Amarapura, Burma, Myanmar. Southeast Asia. Drawing by Lancelot. Travel to the kingdom of Ava, 1855 by Colonel Sir Henry Yule (1820-1889) Le Tour du Monde 1860

Combat with Sword. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

"You Are Shooting at Heaven" fol. 9 recto. Dated: c. 1512/1515. Dimensions: overall: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: French early 16th century.

Man Turning His Head to the Left Made 1538-1548 France. Etching in black on cream laid paper . Juste de Juste

Drie staande fabeldieren. Studies voor de figuratie van spokerijen (series title). Draughtsman: Cornelis Saftleven. Dating: 1617 - 1681. Measurements: h 452 mm × w 298 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Cod. 11093, fol. 4r: Book on Swordsmanship and Wrestling Full page: fencing scene; pen and brush drawing, Southwestern Germany, mid-15th c.

Combat with Dagger and Sword; Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340,1350 - before 1450); Padua (or), Italy; about 1410; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1,8 in.)

Aldegrever, Heinrich, Germany, Frisian with putto and two dolphins, verso bottom center - handwritten, Frisian with child seen on the back, between two dolphins., print, emboss, ornamental print, prints, 9, height 18 mm, width 45 mm, German, 1502 - 1561, print maker, printmaker, 1527 - 1527, second quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design by

God the Father, Three Figures and Sacrificed Lamb. Dated: c. 1420/1430. Dimensions: image: 12.7 x 8.4 cm (5 x 3 5/16 in.). Medium: pen and ink with watercolor; fragment from Bible MS (German text on image verso); image cut in silhouette and mounted on backing sheet. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Austrian 15th Century.

The Eleusinian Mysteries, initiations for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis, Greece. Seated goddess Ceres presents a crown to Eumolpus, while a woman brings her a sesame wreath and olive branch. Other signs indicate Minerva, Bacchus, etc. Ceremonie Eleusine. From a vase in the collection of Sir William Hamilton. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Fumagalli from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1826.

How the Portuguese whip their slaves when they run away. After a sketch in Relation d'un Voyage fait en 1695, 1696, & 1697 by Francois Froger, published Paris 1898. From Afrika, dets Opdagelse, Erobring og Kolonisation, published in Copenhagen, 1901.

Cod. 11093, fol. 33v: Book on Swordsmanship and Wrestling Full page: fencing scene; pen and brush drawing, Southwestern Germany, mid-15th c.

Giovanni Battista Bracelli, From Bizzarie di varie Figure, 1624 From Bizzarie di varie Figure

Combat with Pollaxe; Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, Italian, about 1340/1350 - before 1450; about 1410; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1/8 in.)

Four antique statues illustration. Campana, Pietro (1725 post 1779), Vanni, N.

Due Gladiatori, che guardansi in testata alla Sommita dello Stradone all'Isolotto in Boboli; uno dei guali d'antica mano, e l'altro di Dome:Pieratti.. Vascellini, Gaetano, 1745-1805. Soldini, Francesco Maria. Prints. 1789. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Sculpture , Italy , Florence

Combat with Pollaxe. Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340/1350 - before 1450)

Combat with Sword. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

Eight different monsters. Reproduction of a wood cut.

CODICE TRUJILLO DEL PERU - TOMO II, E. 198 - INDIO PICADO DE UTA - ACUARELA - SIGLO XVIII. Author: MARTINEZ COMPAÑON BALTASAR. Location: PALACIO REAL-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Study for the Adoration of the Shepherds by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) an Italian polymath of the Renaissance.

Amsterdam, Visscher, Claes Jansz. (II), Snellinck, Jan (I), Theatrum Biblicum Hoc Est Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti Tabulis Aeneis Expressae, Twelve prophets, Elisha, Jonah and Obadiah, The prophets Elisha, Jonah and Obadiah stand next to each other in a landscape. Elisha has a two-headed bird on his shoulder and stands next to Naaman, who, on Elisha's advice, is bathing in the Jordan. Jonah stands next to the fish, Obadiah has three loaves of bread and a jar in his hands. Explanations in Latin below the representation. This print is part of an album., print, album sheet, prints, height 213 mm, width 277 mm, Work conception, Southern Netherlands, 1544 - 1638-10-01, after a design by, 1579 - 1579, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker, Publication (Event), Publication, Northern Netherlands, 1586 - 1652-06-19, publisher

Combat with Pollaxe. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

Combat with Dagger. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

Combat with Lance; Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340,1350 - before 1450); Venice, Italy; about 1410; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1,8 in.)

Two human figures with abnormalities, one male and one female figure

The dance of death: death and the man who prides himself on his ancestry. Etching by D.-N. Chodowiecki, 1791, after himself.

Bearing a Weight; Preparing to Jump, and Alighting. Dated: published 1829. Medium: lithograph proof before letters. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Scharf after John Flaxman.

A Chinese blacksmith. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.

15th century French engraving. Wine grower checking the must or new wine.

Combat with Dagger. Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340/1350 - before 1450)

Two street artists such as Fricasso and Scaramucia, Anonymous, After Jacques Callot, 1622 - 1670 print Two artists with feathered headwear on and with pulled swords in their hand standing with their backs to each other. Their names are listed among the figures. This print is part of a series of 23 prints (24 incl. Title print) with two street artists in the foreground dressed as figures from the Italian Commedia dell'arte, and in the background spectators who in the outdoors a (dance) performance of street artists Gadeslaan. Low Countries (possibly) paper etching Types in 'Commedia dell'Arte'

Combat with Sword. Date/Period: Ca. 1410. Folio. Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 279 mm (10.98 in); Width: 206 mm (8.11 in). Author: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

Combat with Rondel and Dagger; Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, Italian, about 1340/1350 - before 1450; about 1410; Tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 27.9 x 20.6 cm (11 x 8 1/8 in.)

A Man in Armor; Augsburg (probably), Germany; about 1560 - 1570; Tempera colors and gold and silver paint on paper bound between original pasteboard covered with original brown calf; Leaf: 43 x 28.9 cm (16 15,16 x 11 3,8 in.)

Grave effigies in St. Saviours Southwark. Wooden figure of a Knight Templar and monument to Old Overie, father of Mary Overie, foundress of the Priory. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries from his J.T. Smiths Antiquities of London and its Environs, J. Sewell, R. Folder, J. Simco, London, 1795.

MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 139. 'Juego de Carnestolendas' (a game called 'carnestolendas'). Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.

Combat with Dagger. Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco (Italian, about 1340/1350 - before 1450)

Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence. Artist: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century; Israhel van Meckenem (German, Meckenem ca. 1440/45-1503 Bocholt); Anonymous, German, Cologne, 15th century. Dimensions: Overall: 10 1/4 x 8 1/16 x 1/2 in. (26 x 20.4 x 1.3 cm). Date: late 15th century.This fascinating album provides vivid testimony to the way in which prints were used in the fifteenth century. Twelve outstanding early impressions of Israhel van Meckenem's engravings of the Passion are interleaved with manuscript text of the Hundred Meditations on the Passion of Christ. The album also includes two rare devotional prints, both hand-colored, as well as liturgical calendars and several devotional texts in Dutch. The entirety was bound into a now well-worn fifteenth-century Netherlandish leather flap binding decorated with geometrical patterns and a stamp with animals and text. Museum: Metropolita

Eskimos sealing among the ice floes, woodcut from Historia de Gentibus Septentionalibus, 1555, by Olaus Magnus, 1490-1558, Swedish historian and geographer

Criminals caught in the act by the Schoeffen and hanged on a tree, right Punishment of a Fronboten who betrayed, 14th century, Gallows, Punishment, Ge...

Cannibals eating, engraving from 1602 Historia Americae (History of America), by Theodore de Bry, 1528-98 Flemish printmaker, published in Frankfurt

. Allegory on celebrity after death. Death as a skeleton with an hourglass and an arrow in his hands. In the background various monograms of famous, deceased artists. Six rules in Latin. Latest print, from part 3, from the Pictorum series Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies. Series of 72 artists' arrangements made by Hendrick Hondius I, Simon Frisius, Andries Jacobsz. Stock and Robert de baudous.

Amsterdam, Danckerts, Cornelis (I), Keyser, Hendrik de (I), Nouveau Livre des Dieux et Deeßes De la Marine Book of Sea Gods and Goddesses, Neptune on a Chariot, The chariot is drawn by two horses., print, engraving, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 96 mm, width 210 mm, Work conception, 1565-05-15 - 1621-05-15, after a design by, 1623 - 1656, first quarter 17th century, second quarter 17th century, third quarter 17th century, paper, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker, Publication (Event), Publication, 1604-06-13 - 1656-04-27, publisher

Illustrated page from Albrecht Dürer's 1512 'The Ring and Fencing Book' in pen with light watercolor showing fencing techniques.

Mindless Ballad (Stumpfsinnige Ballade) 1911 Moriz Jung Austrian. Mindless Ballad (Stumpfsinnige Ballade) 648579

Scene of hellfire. 1569 - 1591. Drawings. Spencer Collection

Woodcut, Infans capite thersitico, child with ugly head, Aldrovandi, Historia Monstrorum, 1642, Renaissance

Grotesque: Can with great ear. Grotesque. Can with large ear, between two 'karyatiden'. From Series of 12

Skeleton on Buck, Antique Skeletons of Amsterdam

Death triumphant. From Hartmann Schedel 'Liber chronicarum mundi' (Nuremberg Chronicle), 1493. Skeletons anatomically inaccurate, especially bones of the pelvis. Woodcut

Venal Love' woodcut depicting death, by Urs Graf, ca.1511

The Bewitched Groom ca. 1544 Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) German. The Bewitched Groom 336238

Siamese twins sharing one set of legs. Date: 18th century

Feder drawing with light watercolor by Albrecht Dürer from 1512 showing fencing exercises, leader positions, and weapon use, with detailed figure depiction.

Hand painted wood engraving of artificial/mechanical hand.

Punishing an offender - he is whipped with a cat o' nine tails Date: 17th century

Andreas Flinch (1813-1872); , To kranier, (1838)

Parijs, Firens, Pierre, Antwerp, Collaert, Adriaen, Paris, Piscivm vivae icones, Fish, Flying gurnard, lumpfish, blenny and a walrus, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 93 mm, width 183 mm, South Netherlandish, French, 1580 - 1638-12-24, print maker, printmaker, 1600 - 1638, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, South Netherlandish (before 1775), 1560 - 1618-06-29, after print by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Amphitheatre scene. Gladiatorial fights with wild animals. Leoprads being speared. Roman Mosaic. 2nd-4th cent. AD Smirat.

A merman, by the sea. Wood engraving.

The ancients and life in ancient Egypt, agriculture, land cultivation, harvest. Ancient Egyptian empire. Egypt. Old engraving illustration from the bo

Jacques Callot, French (1592-1635), Scaramucia and Fricasso, c. 1622, etching

. A bedridden patient is cured by a heavenly vision of the H. Hyacinthus of Poland. The print is part of an eight-member series that forms a framework around an image of the H. Hyacinthus of Poland.

MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 38. 'Yndio arranc‡ndose las barbas con shapratirana' (Indian man having a shave). Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.

Egyptian relief sculpture: a monkey. Draughtsman: Willem de Famars Testas. Dating: 1844 - 1896. Measurements: h 216 mm × w 225 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Four views of the heart circa 1523.

music vocal music vocal range tenor allegory coloured woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham circa 1540 private collection,

Human skulls: five figures. Pencil and ink wash, 1780/1830

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