333

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

The cubit is one fourth of the height of a man and is equal to the greatest width of the shoulders. From the joint of one shoulder to the other is two faces and is equal to the distance from the top of the breast to the navel. [Footnote 9: dalla detta somita. It would seem more accurate to read here dal detto ombilico.] From this point to the genitals is a face’s length.

[Footnote: Compare with this the sketches on the other page of the same leaf. Pl. VIII, No. 2.]

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.

. . .

313,

314,

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,

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