LOBO ANTUNES, JOAO / VALENTE ALVES, MANUE
«There is no doubt that Vilhena had a great affection for ArtisticAnatomy and, between 1905 and 1933, collected more than two thousandof his student`s works that we considered to be of most interest andof the best quality. This book clearly shows the freedom he allowedhis dis-ciples and how they found original forms of representation,which seemed to breathe life into figures, regardless of the technique adopted. Antomy has been studied and cultivated by painters anssculptors trrough the centuries, and it has nobly fulfilled the samemission in a splendid celebration of the body that the theologianscalled the "imago dei", or rather, the image of the Creator.» [Fromthe text of João Lobo Antunes]
