351

The movement of the arm.

When the arm is bent at an angle at the elbow, it will produce some angle; the more acute the angle is, the more will the muscles within the bend be shortened; while the muscles outside will become of greater length than before. As is shown in the example; d c e will shrink considerably; and b n will be much extended.

[Footnote: See Pl. XIX, 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.

. . .

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,

The proportions vary at different ages.

362,

363,

364,

365,

366,

The movement of the human figure.

368,

369,

370,

. . .