TiirE-FOEM IN ART. 

 Fig. 137. 



329 



(+) 



(X) 



(§) 



(II) 



Human Profiles from Aztec design. 

 Fiff. 138. 



The above is a short series selected from the Ti-oano manuscript. 



As an instance of the difficulty of the study of variants we select the following (Fig. 

 139) from the Dresden Codex, where the profile-face passes into a semblance of the 

 full-face. 



Fiff. 139. 



(**) 



Or as is occasionally seen in the Troano manuscript, the oblique line of the 



profile 

 simple 



passes into horizontally one 

 carelessness in drawinsf. 



a change as (oToj The outhnes 



These are examples we take it of 

 Yet we nowhere find so violent a 



never merge. 



In reviewing the human face and its variants we can readily see why the full 

 face should be represented by the Greelv cross and figures growing out of it, and the 

 profile by the cross of St. Andrew's, viz., b}' the repetition of the essential lines of 

 both full -face and profile. 



In the first place it is not the crossing of lines which is as essential as their posi- 

 tions. A vertical and a horizontal line are equally distinctive of a face whether crossed 



* Kings. Coll. (Dresden Codex.) 

 t Ibid. 

 i Ibid. 



§ From Dresden Codex. 



II Kings. Coll. (Dresden Codex.) 



T" Ibid. (Borgian Codex.) 



** Kings. Coll. (Dresden Codex.) " 



