2l6 On Painting. 



their figures, though fome of them hnve hut feven ; hut we 

 ordinarily divide the figure into ten faces*, that is to fay, 

 from the crown of the head to the fole of the foot, in the fol- 

 lowing manner : 



" From the crown of the head to the forehead is the third 

 part of a face. 



" The face begins at the root of the lowed hairs which 

 are upon the forehead, and ends at the bottom of the chin. 



'*■ The face is divided into three proportionable parts : the 

 firft contains the forehead, the feeond the nofe, and the third 

 the mouth and chin; from the chin to the pit betwixt the 

 collar bones are two lengths of a nofe. 



6i From the pit betwixt the collar bones to the bottom of 

 the breads, one face. 



" From the bottom of the breafts to the navel, one facef. 



" From the navel to the genitals, one face J. 



" From the genitals to the upper part of the knee, two 

 faces. 



" The knee contains half a face. 



" From the lower part of the knee to the ancle, two faces. 



" From the ancle to the fole of the foot, half a face. 



" A man when his arms are flretched out is, from the 

 longed finger of his right hand to the longed finger of his 

 ieft, as broad as he is long. 



" From one fide of the breads to the other, two faces. 



" The bone of the arm called humerus is the length of 

 two faces, from the ihoulder to the elbow. 



" From the end of the elbow to the root of the little finger, 

 the bone called cubitus, with part of the hand, contains two 

 faces. 



' " From the box of the fhoulder-blade to the pit betwixt 

 the collar bOnes, one face. 



" If you would be fati^ficd in the meafures of the breadth 

 from the extremity of one finger to the other, fo that this 

 breadth fliould be equal to the length of the body, you mud 

 obfcrve that the boxes of the elbows with the humerus, and 

 of the humerus with the fhoulder-blade, bear the proportion 

 of half a face, when the arms arc ftfetched out. 



" The fole of the foot is the iixth part of the figure. 



* This muft depend on rhe a^e and quality of the perfons. The 

 Apollo and Venus tie Medicis h tve more than ten faces : the Hercules 

 has feven heads, as fuitina great bodily ftrength. 



f, The Apollo has a nofe more. 



\ The Apollo has half a nofe more; and the upper half of the Venus 

 dc Medicis is to the lower part of the belly and not to die privy parts.— 

 See Audran's Antient Statues. 



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