Excerpt from A Manual of Artistic Anatomy: For the Use of Sculptors, Painters, and Amateurs The brief Manual, on a matter of national im portance, which I now venture to submit to public criticism, is simply the completion of an idea. Entertained by me for nearly a quarter of a cen tury. From the time, indeed, that I first taught anatomy, or rather I ought to say, studied ana tomical 'shapes, their import or signification, their relations to each other, and their artistic, philo sophic, and utilitarian aspects, I felt convinced, instinctively as it were, that the true relation of anatomy to art, meaning Fine Art, had been mis represented and misunderstood. But it was not until I had visited the galleries of the Louvre, and looked attentively at the Elgin Marbles, that I was in a position to support this view with an appeal to demonstration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.