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January 24

Albrecht Dürer — translation

Hello

Is there an English translation of Albrecht Durers "Four books on human porportion" I am trying to get along just from the drawings but I dont understand

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.232.225 (talk) 05:11, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There are translations to Dutch, French, Italian and Latin, and an English translation of an Italian commentary on the Four books, but I haven't found any references to an English translation. (By the way, you appear to be located near the pole of inaccessibility of the 48 contiguous US states.) --Lambiam 14:09, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Some WorldCat results: Human proportions. Albrecht Dürer; Walter Leopold Strauss, New York Arabis Books 1974, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) on human proportion : 18 art postcards. Albrecht Dürer; Peter Moser, Bamberg : Babenberg Verlag, 2005. English 70.67.193.176 (talk) 17:27, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The WorldCat entry (in which "Arabis Books" is a typo for "Abaris Books") concerns Volume 5 of the six-volume series The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Durer .^[1][2] As far as I can tell, it contains reproductions of the drawings of Dürer's Four books with annotations by Strauss, but not a translation of its text. --Lambiam 20:03, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.233.225 (talk) 00:17, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]