Books like Anatomy lessons from the great masters by Hale, Robert Beverly

A CD-ROM companion featuring all illustrations from Frank H. Netter’s third‑edition Atlas of Human Anatomy, 2003, plus accompanying exam questions.

A comprehensive guide to anatomy and figure drawing for artists of all abilities.

Artistic Anatomy, first published in 1889 and later expanded by Robert Beverly Hale for English readers, offers timeless guidance on human figure proportion and drawing for artists across generations.

By the end of the eighteenth century a sense of anxiety and crisis began to preoccupy European writers and artists in their relationship to the heroic past, from antiquity on. The grandness of that intellectual tradition could no longer fit into the framework of the present, and artists felt overwhelmed by the magnitude of past heroic accomplishment. Beginning with artists such as Fuseli, this was soon reflected in artistic representation. The partial image, the "crop," fragmentation, ruin and mutilation - all expressed nostalgia and grief for the loss of a vanished totality, a utopian wholeness. Often, such feelings were expressed in deliberate destructiveness and this became the new way of seeing: the notion of the modern. The "crop" constituted a distinctively modern view of the world, the essence of modernity itself. The French Revolution was not only an historical event that instituted and canonized deliberate fragmentation, but also in some cases the reverse: Jacques-Louis David and other Neo-classical artists tried, at least allegorically and metaphorically, to repair the broken link with the perceived wholeness of the past. In The Body in Pieces, Linda Nochlin traces these developments as they have been expressed in representations of the human figure - fragmented, mutilated and fetishistic - by looking at work produced by artists from Neo-classicism and Romanticism to the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists, the Surrealists and beyond.

The definitive English translation of Gottfried Bammes’ 1964 anatomy classic, offering over 540 diagrams and 500 pages of in‑depth analysis of bones, muscles and figure drawing techniques for artists and illustrators.

Learn to capture the human figure by developing keen observation and gesture skills, with techniques that build confidence and encourage bold, curious drawing.

Discover how to sketch the human figure with confidence—using Old Master drawings, Dan Gheno’s own work, and clear diagrams that unlock the techniques of figure drawing.