335

The relative proportions of the torso and of the leg.

a b c are equal to each other and to the space from the armpit of the shoulder to the genitals and to the distance from the tip of the fingers of the hand to the joint of the arm, and to the half of the breast; and you must know that c b is the third part of the height of a man from the shoulders to the ground; d e f are equal to each other and equal to the greatest width of the shoulders.

[Footnote: See Pl. XVI, No. 1.]

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.

. . .

315,

316,

317,

Proportions of the head seen in front.

319,

320,

321,

322,

Relative proportion of the hand and foot.

Relative proportions of the foot and of the face.

325,

326,

Proportions of the leg.

328,

329,

330,

On the central point of the whole body.

The relative proportions of the torso and of the whole figure.

The relative proportions of the head and of the torso.

The relative proportions of the torso and of the leg.

335,

The relative proportions of the torso and of the foot.

The proportions of the whole figure.

338,

339,

340,

The torso from the front and back.

Vitruvius’ scheme of proportions.

The arm and head.

Proportions of the arm.

345,

346,

347,

348,

The movement of the arm.

350,

351,

352,

353,

The movement of the torso.

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