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PROPORTION.

 

accede to the verdict which succeeding ages have passed, and submit to her as our instructor in the human form.

The average height of a full-sized male figure is about eight heads, the divisions falling consecutively on these points, viz., the chin, the fifth rib, the depression above the navel, the os- pubis or lower extremity of the trunk, the middle of the thigh, the knee, just above the ankle, and the sole of the foot.

The measurement of a few figures are here given, viz. -

 
Heads.
The Apollo...................................
7 7/8
Herculese, (Farnesian)................
7 7/8
Antinous......................................
7 1/9
Laocoon.......................................
7 9/16
Peace...........................................
7 1/2
Pyramus......................................
7 1/2
Venus, (de Medici)......................
7 3/4
Shepherdess, (Grecian)...............
7 7/9

The head may be divided into four parts, equal with the exception of the upper division, which is rather the shortest, viz., at the root of the hair, the root of the nose or the upper eye-lid, the bottom of the nose, and the chin.

The length of the eye is one fifth the width of the head.

The hand is as long as the face; and the foot one sixth or seventh of the body.

Narrow shoulders and wide hips are the distinguishing characteristics of the female figure ; the male possessing wide shoulders and narrow hips.

The proportions of the living figure vary from seven to eight heads.

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