. Animal and vegetable physiology considered with reference to natural theology. Natural theology; Physiology; Plant physiology; Biology. that a knowledge of anatomy is so necessary to the painter and the scul^Dtor. In every movement and attitude of the body, some particular sets of muscles are in action, and consequently tense and pro- minent, while others are relaxed and flattened ; differences which it is requisite that the artist should faithfully express, in order to give a correct representation of the living figure. The dilatation of the muscular fibres in thick- ness, which accompanies
. Animal and vegetable physiology considered with reference to natural theology. Natural theology; Physiology; Plant physiology; Biology. that a knowledge of anatomy is so necessary to the painter and the scul^Dtor. In every movement and attitude of the body, some particular sets of muscles are in action, and consequently tense and pro- minent, while others are relaxed and flattened ; differences which it is requisite that the artist should faithfully express, in order to give a correct representation of the living figure. The dilatation of the muscular fibres in thick- ness, which accompanies their contraction in length, would, if these fibres had been loose and uncon- nected, have occasioned too great a separation and * This is illustrated by the annexed figures, 37 and 38, the former showing the relaxed and elongated, and the latter the contracted and swollen state of the same Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869. London : W. Pickering
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