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Camper was a competent artist and draughtsman who had taken drawing lessons from Carel de Moor and his son Carel Isaak de Moor in Leiden, and whose own pupils had been Martin van Marum, Johannes le Francq van Berkhey, and Wibrand Veltman. [1]
The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965). It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial and the metric systems. It is based on the height of a man with his arm raised.
Anthropometry (/ æ n θ r ə ˈ p ɒ m ɪ t r ɪ / ⓘ, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos) 'human' and μέτρον (métron) 'measure') refers to the measurement of the human individual.
There are a number of important distances between reference points that an artist may measure and will observe: [1] These are the distance from floor to the patella; [a] from the patella to the front iliac crest; [b] the distance across the stomach between the iliac crests; the distances (which may differ according to pose) from the iliac crests to the suprasternal notch between the clavicles ...
Hiroshima, also known as ANT 79, is a painting by the French painter Yves Klein, created in 1961.Through the use of both anthropometry and monochromy, the work pays tribute to the victims of Hiroshima, affected by the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945, by the United States.
ANT 82, Blue Age Anthropometry (original French title ANT 82, Anthropométrie de l'époque bleue) is a painting by French artist Yves Klein, created in 1960. Purchased in 1984, this work is part of the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne , in Paris .
This is a list of units of measurement based on human body parts or the attributes and abilities of humans (anthropometric units). It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based.
The anthropometry of the upper arm is a set of measurements of the shape of the upper arms. The principal anthropometry measures are the upper arm length , the triceps skin fold ( TSF ), and the ( mid- ) upper arm circumference (( M ) UAC ).