322

Proportions of the head seen in front.

The great toe is the sixth part of the foot, taking the measure in profile, on the inside of the foot, from where this toe springs from the ball of the sole of the foot to its tip a b; and it is equal to the distance from the mouth to the bottom of the chin. If you draw the foot in profile from the outside, make the little toe begin at three quarters of the length of the foot, and you will find the same distance from the insertion of this toe as to the farthest prominence of the great toe.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
VII: On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure.
. . .
Preliminary observations.
308,
309
Proportions of the head and face.
310,
311,
312,
313,
314,
315,
316,
317,
318
Proportions of the head seen in front.
319,
320,
321,
322,
323
Relative proportion of the hand and foot.
324
Relative proportions of the foot and of the face.
325,
326,
327
Proportions of the leg.
328,
329,
330,
331
On the central point of the whole body.
332
The relative proportions of the torso and of the whole figure.
333
The relative proportions of the head and of the torso.
334
The relative proportions of the torso and of the leg.
335,
336
The relative proportions of the torso and of the foot.
337
The proportions of the whole figure.
338,
339,
340,
341
The torso from the front and back.
342
. . .