341

The proportions of the whole figure.

The width of the shoulders is 1/4 of the whole. From the joint of the shoulder to the hand is 1/3, from the parting of the lips to below the shoulder-blade is one foot.

The greatest thickness of a man from the breast to the spine is one 8th of his height and is equal to the space between the bottom of the chin and the top of the head.

The greatest width is at the shoulders and goes 4.

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.

. . .

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.

355,

356,

357,

358,

359,

360,

. . .