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copyright reserved  \nFirst published 1949Seventh impression (with amendment)1976  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nThe systematic study ofliving models,on which later Greekand Roman art depended,was reintroduced by artists of theItalian Renaissance,deriving their humanism to a largeextent from the contemplation of Graeco-Roman sculpture.But reactions to the human form are not just cumulative:aswith clothes,what one age stresses often becomes boring tothe next,and for similar reasons.Tintoretto,last of theRenaissance giants,concentrated on muscle-patterns andbrief contour-lines,and little else.  \nThe Carracci family professed synthetic aims,but theirpractice inspired a close study of the models,and from un-exploited points of view.During the next hundred and fiftyyears their chalk figure drawings set an academic standardwhich died hard.  \nWith Rubens the Baroque idiom arrived in the North.His rendering of a tortured man(Plate 6)has power andeven grace,but no latency;whereas Rembrandt's reactionto the human form was more subtly dramatised,and histechnical means reflect this.The woman in a mushroom hat(Plate 7)seems almost a conjuring trick with the reed-penand the brush.Grace in the Italian sense has been exchangedfor a realism that transcends all matter-of-fact details.  \nIn the drawing by G.B.Tiepolo(Plate 9)the lines are nolonger outlines so much as accents falling upon areas of lightand shade,and throwing into bold relief the elegant,approximate shapes.If this sketch was not made from life itimplies nevertheless a profound study of the human form.The search for elegance continued,ending sometimes inwhat would now be regarded as a confusion of attributes.  \nJ.F.Rigaud's drawing(Plate Io)is of interest in so far as it  \nis an attempt to combine big hips with long fanks,muscleswith embonpoint.  \nIn the work of Fuseli and his circle new aims emerged,though seldom detached from a pre-occupation with theMacabre.Ottley,for instance,melodramatised the humanfigure,turning it into a sort of anatomical Frankenstein.Asomewhat later approach was recorded by William Etty,whose studies reflect both the form ideals of the secondquarter of the nineteenth century and the trend towardsmere surface polish.On the whole his pupil Frost succumbedto this trend,as can be seen in the drawing reproduced atPlate I3.Mulready's studies belong to the same stage in theprogress of figure draughtsmenship,yet the combination ofspontaneity and precision to be found in his pen techniquehas rarely been surpassed by English artists.  \nPre-Raphaelite influence can be felt in the early work ofStacy Marks,where the outlines of the forms are both literaland arabesque,and Plate I8 illustrates his handling of acomplex pose within such limits.Alfred Stevens,who was apainter and a designer as well as a sculptor,belonged to noschool or group,but turned back to the Renaissance formoral support.  \nThe studies of Rodin show the quick reactions cultivatedby the French tradition—reactions which in themselvescreate a taste for the suggestion of movement.His skill lay inrepresenting the suppleness rather than the solidity of fesh;and recent artists have emphasised other properties of thebody such as its planes(Plate 26),its volumes (Plate 27),andits biomorphic affinities with stone(Plate 28).Indeed thereproductions brought together in the following pages cando no more than show the general scope of the Museumcollection of figure drawings,in which the nineteenth-century English schools are represented perhaps more abun-dantly than elsewhere.  \nY,ANONYMOUs,North Italian,late Isth century.Pen and ink9×6).Dyce 149  \n2.JACOPO ROBUSTI,called TINTORETTO(ISI2-I594).Charcoal on greypaper heightened with white(Is×1O4).Dyce 235  \n3. ]асоро noвusті, called тпмтокетто (1s12-1594). Charcoal on grey paper(9×7辛).Dyce 246  \n4.ANNIBALE CARRACCI(Is60","cbCaiixizHI7LvN7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiixizHI7LvN7","pdf",2733451,36,"English","# INTRODUCTION\n## Renaissance reintroduction of living models\n## From humanism to evolving reactions\n## Baroque and later figure study approaches\n## Nineteenth-century English schools in the collection","[{\"question\":\"What is the introduction mainly concerned with?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how artists across periods studied the human form through figure drawings and how those reactions changed over time.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text describe the Renaissance revival of living models?\",\"answer\":\"It states that living models on which later Greek and Roman art depended were reintroduced by Italian Renaissance artists.\"},{\"question\":\"Which later directions does the introduction highlight beyond the Renaissance?\",\"answer\":\"It discusses Baroque treatment (Rubens), more subtle dramatisation (Rembrandt), later searches for elegance, and nineteenth-century emphasis on both precision and new surface or bodily properties.\"}]","VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM Figure Drawings - Introduction | PDF",1790689799,55]