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• Tālamāna or Iconometry: Being a Concise Account of the Measurements of Hindu Images as Given in the Āgamas and Other Authoritative Works (Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India #3, 1920, reprinted 1977), by T. A. Gopinatha Rao
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• Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's "Four Books on Human Proportion": Renaissance Proportion Theory (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, trans. by James Hutson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Divina Proportione: Opera a Tutti Glingegni Perspicaci e Curiosi Necessaria oue Ciascun Studioso di Philosophia; Prospettiua Pictura Sculptura; Architectura; Musica; e Altre Mathematice; Suavissima; Sotile; e Admirabile Doctrina Consequira; e Delecterassi, Co Varie Questione de Secretissima Scientia (in Italian; Venice: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509), by Luca Pacioli, contrib. by Antonio Capella, illust. by Leonardo da Vinci
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• Alberti Dureri Clarissimi Pictoris et Geometrae de Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Huanorum Corporum, Libri in Latinum Conuersi (in Latin; Nuremberg: In aedib. viduae Durerianae, 1532), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at Vatican Digital Library)
• La Genesi Dello Scorcio nell' Arte Greca (in Italian; Rome: Tip. della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1907), by Alessandro Della Seta
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• The Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of Form (London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1842), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Science of Beauty, As Developed in Nature and Applied in Art (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The science of beauty, as developed in nature and applied in art. (W. Blackwood and sons, 1856), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esthétique des proportions dans la nature et dans les arts (Gallimard, 1927), by Matila C. Ghyka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A primer of visual art; the basis of advertising, posters, typography, textiles, display, interiors, ind. design, architecture, sculpture, photography, drawing [and] painting. (Burgess Pub. Co., 1950), by Ernest Mundt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to functional design. (McGraw-Hill, 1950), by Richard Adams Rathbone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Harmonie im Weltall, in der Natur und Kunst. (Orion-Verlag, 1917), by Emerich Zederbauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture; an essay in comparative aesthetics (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1899), by George Lansing Raymond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hay on the human figure (William Blackwood and Sons, 1851), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art du dessin démontré d'une manière claire et précise par Jean Cousin, peintre français : revu corrigé et augmentée d'après les ouvrages de ce mâitre et les meilleurs éditions qui argent paru jusqu'à ce jour (Chez Jean, in the 1820s), by Jehan Cousin and P. T. Le Clere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die proportionen des gesichts in der griechischen kunst ... (G. Reimer, 1893), by August Kalkmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of visual art; the basis of advertising, posters, typography, textiles, display, interiors, ind. design, architecture, sculpture, photography, drawing [and] painting. (Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952), by Ernest Mundt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The harmonic law of nature applied to architectural design (William Blackwood and Sons, 1855), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esthétique des proportions dans la nature et dans les arts (Gallimard, 1927), by Matila C. Ghyka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traité de perspective. (Lacroix-Comon et Baudry, 1859), by J. Adhémar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proportion, or, The geometric principle of beauty, analysed. (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1843), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur experimentellen Aesthetik einfacher räumlicher Formverhältnisse (W. Engelmann, 1893), by Lightner Witmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the science of those proportions by which the human head and countenance as represented in works of ancient Greek art are distinguished from those of ordinary nature. (William Blackwood and Sons, 1849), by D. R. Hay and William Forrest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divina proportione. (C. Graeser, 1896), by Luca Pacioli, Constantin Winterberg, and Constantin Winterberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The science of human proportions : a survey of the growth and development of the normal and abnormal human being (Clothing Designer, 1933), by Harry Simons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neue Lehre von den Proportionen des menschlichen Körpers : aus einem bisher unerkannt gebliebenen, die ganze Natur und Kunst durchdringenden morphologischen Grundgesetze entwickelt und mit einer vollständigen historischen Uebersicht der bisherigen Systeme begleitet (Leipzig : Rudolph Weigel, 1854., 1854), by Adolf Zeising (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Proportion in Antike und Mittelalter. (C.H. Beck, 1926), by Ernst Moessel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die kunst der malerei; eine anleitung zur ausbildung für die kunst, nebst einem anhang zur nachhilfe bei dem studium der perspektive, anatomie und der proportionen (K. W. Hiersemann, 1910), by Adolf Ehrhardt, Ernst Berger, and Johann Gottfried Schadow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The proportions of the human figure, according to a new canon, for practical use; wth a critical notice of the canon of Polycletus, and of the principal ancient and modern systems. (Chapman and Hall, 1866), by William Wetmore Story (page images at HathiTrust)
• First principles of symmetrical beauty. (W. Blackwood and sons, 1846), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panharmonicon; designed as an illustration of an engraved plate, in which is attempted to be proved, that the principles of harmony more or less prevail throughout the whole system of nature; but more especially in the human frame: and that where these principles can be applied to works of art, they excite the pleasing and satisfying ideas of proportion and beauty. (Printed by Nichols, son, and Bentley, 1815), by Francis Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Élémens de peinture pratique (Chez Arkstée & Merkus, libraires ;, 1776), by Roger de Piles, Charles-Antoine Jombert, and Arkstée et Merkus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divina proportione (C. Graeser, 1889), by Luca Pacioli and Constantin Winterberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• De symmetria partium humanorum corporum libri quatuor (In officina Caroli Perier, 1557), by Albrecht Dürer and Joachim Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prima parte della luce del dipingere et disegnare (Ende men vintse te koop by Ian Iantsz. ... als mede by den Autheur selve ..., 1643), by Crispijn van de Passe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragionamento intorno al formare logge arcate l'una soprapposta all'altra in fabbriche fornite di più ordini di architettura : volendo seguire il sistema di diminuzione in ognuno di essi. (Per Lelio dalla Volpe impressore dell' Institutio delle Scienze, 1778), by Vincenzo Mazzi, Pio Panfili, Lelio Dalla Volpe, and Ignazio Boncompagni-Ludovisi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clariss. pictoris et geometræ Alberti Dureri, De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestib. imaginum (Impensis viduæ Durerianæ, per Hieronymum Formschneyder Norinbergæ., 1534), by Albrecht Dürer and Joachim Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les premiers elemens de la peinture pratique : enrichis de figures de proportion mesurées sur l'antique (Chez Nicolas Langlois ..., 1684), by Roger de Piles, Nicolas Langlois, Sébastien Le Clerc, and Jean-Baptiste Corneille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera di Filippo Baldinucci, intorno al modo di dar proporzione alle figure in pittura e scultura ec. : ora per la prima volta pubblicata. (Tommaso Masi, 1802), by Filippo Baldinucci and Gaetano Poggiali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie de la figure humaine : considérée dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, pere ..., 1773), by Peter Paul Rubens, Charles-Antoine Jombert, and Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato delle perfette proporzioni (Firenze, 1567), by Vincenzo Danti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form. (W. Blackwood, 1842), by D. R. Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varia conmensvracion para la escvltvra y arqvitectvra (Por Francisco Sanz ... :, 1675), by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres d'approbation et mémoire sur la méthode nationale de dessin de E.M. Templé (s.n., 1886), by E. M. Templé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture : an essay in comparative aesthetics (Putnam's Sons, 1899), by George Lansing Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Brown acme system of perspective : comprising a full and complete exposition of the rules of perspective ; with explanatory diagrams ; designed as a hand book for artists, designers and draughtsmen in all branches of art (H. E. Brown, 1883), by Henry E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• La pratica della perspettiva : opera molto vtile a pittori, a scvltori, & ad architetti : con due tauole, una de' capitoli principali, l'altra delle cose piu notabili contenue nella presente opera (appresso Camillo & Rutilio Borgominieri fratelli ..., 1568), by Daniel Barbaro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der schoene Mensch im Altertum; eine Geschichte des Koerperideals bei Aegyptern, Orientalen u. Griechen. (Hirth, 1912), by Heinrich Bulle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettera di Filippo Baldinucci intorno al modo di dar proporzione alle figure in pittura e scultura ec. : ora per la prima volta pubblicata. (Co' tipi Bodoniani, 1802), by Filippo Baldinucci, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Gaetanno Domenico Poggiali, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Mensch; Hand- und Lehrbuch der Masse, Knochen und Muskeln des menschlichen Körpers für Künstler, Architekten, Kunst-, Kunstgewerbe-, Handwerkerschulen und zum Selbstunterricht. (Union, 1903), by Otto Geyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les quatre livres d'Albert Durer ... De la proportion des parties & pourtraicts des corps humains. (I. Ieansz, 1975), by Albrecht Dürer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reprentation [sic] des diverses figures humaines avec leurs mesures prises sur des antiques = Eigentliche Vorstellung und Proportionen menschlicher Leibes nach dem gerechten Mass der Antiquen. (Joh. Christoph Weigel excudit, 1700), by Johann Christoph Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• De symmetria partium in rectis formis humanorum corporum (In aedib. viduae Durerianae, 1532), by Albrecht Dürer, Helius Eobanus Hessus, and Joachim Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proportien der menschelyke lichamen, vertoont in zes en twintig afbeeldingen, zoo van mannen, vrouwen, als kinderen, &c. : alle met de maat van ieder deel daar by gestelt : na de voortreffelykste en allerschoonste antique beelden (By Reiner en Josua Ottens, konst- kaart- en boekverkoopers ..., in the 1680s), by Gérard Audran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hierinn sind begriffen vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (Gedruckt durch I. Formschneyder, auff Verlegung Albrecht Dürers velassen Witib], 1528), by Albrecht Dürer, Hieronymus Formschneyder, and Willibald Pirckheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traicté de la proportion naturelle et artificielle des choses. (Par Arnaud Colmiez, 1649), by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo and Hilaire Pader (page images at HathiTrust)
• Di Alberto Durero pittore, e geometra chiarissimo (Presso Domenico Nicolini, 1591), by Albrecht Dürer, Domenico Nicolini, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unterweisung der Proportion und Stellung der Possen, Nürnberg, 1542; In getreuer Nachbildung hrsg. mit ein Einführung von Leo Baer. ([J. Baer], 1920), by Erhard Schön (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes et dessins sur le corps humain, ses mesures et proportions. Feuillets inédits, reproduits d'apres les originaux conservés a la Bibliothèque du Chateau de Windsor. Publication honorée de la souscription du Ministère de l'institution publique et des beaux-arts. (É. Rouveyre, 1901), by Leonardo da Vinci (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tempelmasse; das Gesetz der Proportion in den antiken und altchristlichen Sakralbauten; ein Beitrag zur Kunstwissenschaft und Ästhetik (A. Schroll & Co., 1912), by Odilo Wolff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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