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    Of the Just Shaping of Letters
    Of the Just Shaping of Letters
    Of the Just Shaping of Letters
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    Of the Just Shaping of Letters

    By R. T. Nichol and Albrecht Dürer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 1965
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      Of the Just Shaping of Letters - R. T. Nichol

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      Title: Of the Just Shaping of Letters

      Author: Albrecht Dürer

      Translator: R. T. Nichol

      Release Date: August 16, 2011 [EBook #37103]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OF THE JUST SHAPING OF LETTERS ***

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      OF THE JUST SHAPING OF LETTERS

      BY ALBRECHT DÜRER

      TRANSLATED

      BY

      R. T. NICHOL

      FROM THE LATIN TEXT OF

      THE EDITION OF

      MDXXXV

      *

      OF THE JUST

      SHAPING OF

      LETTERS

      FROM THE APPLIED

      GEOMETRY OF

      ALBRECHT

      DÜRER

      BOOK

      JJJ

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. · NEW YORK

      ALBRECHT DÜRER TO WILIBALD PIRCKHEIMER

      HIS PATRON AND VERY GOOD FRIEND

      GREETING:

      In our Germany, most excellent Wilibald, are to be found at the present day many young men of a happy talent for the Art Pictorial, who without any artistic training whatever, but taught only by their daily exercise of it, have run riot like an unpruned tree, so that unhesitatingly and without compunction they turn out their works, purely according to their own judgment. But when great and ingenious artists behold their so inept performances, not undeservedly do they ridicule the blindness of such men; since sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who themselves are ignorant of this art. Since this is in very truth the foundation of the whole graphic art, it seems to me a good thing to set down for studious beginners a few rudiments, in which I might, as it were, furnish them with a handle for using the compass and the rule, and thence, by seeing Truth itself before their eyes, they might become not only zealous of the arts, but even arrive at a great and true understanding of them.

      Now, although in our own time, and amongst ourselves, the Art Pictorial is in ill repute with some, as being held to minister incitement to idolatry, yet a Christian man is no more enticed to superstition by pictures or images, than is an honest man girt with a sword to highway robbery. Certes he would be a witless creature who would willingly adore either pictures or images of wood or stone. On the contrary, a picture is the rather edifying and agreeable to Christian religion and duty, if only it be fairly, artificially, and correctly painted.

      In what honour and dignity this art was anciently held amongst the Greeks and Romans, the old authors sufficiently testify; though afterwards all but lost, while it lay hid for more than a thousand years. It has now at length, only within the last two hundred years, by some Italians been brought again to light. For it is the easiest thing in the world for the Arts to be lost and perish; but only with difficulty, and after long time & pains are they resuscitated. Wherefore I hope that no wise man will defame this laborious task of mine, since with good intent & in behoof of all who love the Liberal Arts have I undertaken it: nor for painters alone, but for goldsmiths too, &

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