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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29815	Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching to which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest and most exact grounds and rules of symetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...	Browne, Alexander, fl. 1660-1677.	1669 (1669)	Wing B5097; ESTC R19752	72,506	182

exact and true proportion of Mans Body was not understood by Occasion whereof there never came any Excellent Peeces abroad although the matter were never so costly And consequently that the Painters being ignorant of that they had in hand instead of proportionable men made lame Pictures as the Architecture Temples Images and Pictures made throughout the whole World but especially in Italy about the time of Constantine the Great untill Giotto in Tuscany as Andrino di Edesia Pauese in Lombardy can sufficiently witness and this in a word is that the knowledge whereof so satisfieth the judgment that it maketh it not onely able to make whosoever we list but also teacheth us to judge of Images and Pictures as well antient as new and without this a Painter besides that he is not worthy the name of a Painter is like one which perswadeth himself he swimmeth above Water when indeed he sinketh to conclude then it is impossible to make any decent or well proportioned thing without this Symetrical measure of the parts orderly united Wherefore my greatest endeavour shall be to lay open the worthiness of this part of painting unto all such as are naturally inclined thereunto by reason of a good temperature joyned with an apt Disposition of the parts thereof for such men will be much affected therewith to the end they may the better perceive the force of Nature vvho by industry and help of a good conceipt vvill easily attain to so deep a reach that they vvill be able upon the sudden to discern any Disproportion as a thing repugnant to their Nature unto which perfection on the contrary Side they can never attain vvhose Judgements are corrupted through the Distemperature of their Organical parts I speak of such vvho not knowing the virtue of proportion affect nothing else but the vain surface of garish colours wrought after their own humour vvho prove only Dawbers of Images and Walls throughout the whole World moving the beholders partly to smile at their Follies and partly to greive that the Art should be thus disgraced by such absurde Idiot's who as they have no judgement herein so do they run into divers other most shamefull errors into which I never heard that any ever fell who were acquainted with the Beauty of proportion but have rather prooved men of rare Spirits and sound Judgements as may be gathered by the great request it was in untill the times of those Princes as well antient as late But before I proceed any farther I think it necessary to treat something of a Head in particular First Of the Head in Prophile or side-wayes THe manner to make this Head by just and safe rules is thus First forme a perfect equall Triangle in what position you will turning the Triangle to make the Face upon one of the three sides be it which it will either upwards or downwards According to Odnardo Fialetti higer or lower dividing that side into three equall parts the one to serve from the lower part of the Haire to the lower part of the Forehead the Second thence to the under part of the Nostrils the Third to the lower part of the Chinn now having framed these three lines draw a little crooked stroak vvith a Cole or Chalk out of the right Line that may reach from the top of the Forehead unto the Eyebrow from vvhence draw away the slope Line bending at the end To performe the Nose either long short gross or thin as you vvould have it ending that at the second distance vvhere the Nostrils end then subdivide the remaining third part in the midst vvhere the Mouth shall be placed for the parting of the upper and under Lipps then frame the Chinn having a respect to the perpendicular Line that it fall not out of the middle of the Chinn adjoyning thereto the under Chinn down to the Throat-pit So with the other two dividing lines the one from the Top of the Forehead downwards and ends in the midst of the back part of the Ear the other proceedeth upwards from the Chinn ascening till that meet with the Superiour descending Line whose Intersection directeth the Eare that the circumference thereof stretch not too far Thus with your judgement take the upper part of the Forehead and come to describe a great circular Line about to Form with that the roundness of the Head unto the Nape of the Neck keeping the proportion that Nature teacheth and from thence downwards frame the rest of the Neck remembring that the Tip of the Eare doth not exceed the lower part of the Nostril So you may have the Head in what Position you will so this abandon not the two other Lines each concurring in their due points Of the Foreright Face BEing then desireous to draw the Foreright Face it will be necessary to Forme a perfect Ovall which being made divide it in the midst with a line the longest way that is to say a perpendicular line divide this line into three equall parts allowing a fourth of one of the three parts for the Hair in the Forehead the First for the Forehead the Second for the Nose the Third for the Chin. In the midst thereof must the Mouth be formed alwayes remembring that the Eyes must be in one line the cross line of the Nose and Mouth must alwayes be correspondent to the cross line where the Eyes are placed and the Eyes must be the length of one Eye distant from the other and that their inward Corners be perpendicularly over the out-side of the Nostrils punctually but to make the Eares in a Foreright Face proportionable they must be much Foreshortned by Foreshortning I mean when the Eye doth not see the full Latitude of it the proportion of the length of the Eare to be from the Eyebrowes to the bottome of the Nostrils and then joyn the Neck with the Hair in such sort as may seem most pleasant unto the Eye Of the Head in Foreshortning HItherto I have treated of the Head both Foreright and in other Positions but that you might know all that is needfull for the perfect understanding of this profession it is necessary that I specifie the manner how to draw the Face by an easy absolute and fair way Treating thus I propound to you Methodical means therein because my intent is to Facilitate the matter in that manner but without writing thereupon it may be intelligible for a draught well made hath that power that it makes itself understood without any discourse of the Author thereon but I alwayes observe both the one and the other also I say that the foreshortning which is made onely with Fretts Grates Squares or with Geometrical Instruments breed onely a confusion of lines which is not the best principal of expert Ingenuity the reason whereof is that it can hardly be measured by any Rule unless the whole Body be framed together Therefore I will shew an easy Rule very like to that of the foreright Face that is to

from the Eyebrowes to the Neck behinde is double to the length of the whole Head the circumference of the Waste is a Triple Sesquialter to the Diameter thereof and is all one with the Trunk of the Body which is three Faces the circumference of the Body under the Arm-pits and the space between them and the VVrist answer in a double proportion and is all one with any half of the Body The Measures which are Vnison or all one and equall between themselves are these First the space between the Chinn and the Throat-pit is as much as the Diameter of the Neck the circumference of the Neck is as much as from the Throat-pit to the Navile the Diameter of the VVaste answereth to the distance between the Knobbe of the Throat and the top of the Head and this is the length of the Foot the space between the Eyelids and the Nostrils is all one with that betwixt the Chinn and the Throat-bone again from the Nose to the Chinn is as much as from the Throat-Bone to the Throat-pit moreover the space from the hollow of the Eye below and from the Eye-brow to the Center of the Eye is the same with the prominency of the Nostrils and so much it is between the Nostrils and the end of the Vpper Lip so that these three spaces be equal besides the distance between the top of the Naile of the Fore-finger and the last Joynt thereof and from thence to the VVrist are equall again the space between the Naile of the Middle Finger and the last Joynt thereof and from thence to the VVrist is all one the greater Joynt of the Fore-finger is the height of the Fore-head and the space between that Joynt and the top of the Naile is equall to the Nose beginning at the bottome of the most eminent Arch above the Eyes where the Fore-head and the Nose are divided the two first Joynts of the Middle Finger are equall to the space between the Nose and the Chinn the first Joynt whereon the Naile groweth is the distance between the Nose and the Mouth so that the second Joynt answereth to the First in a Sesquialter proportion as also doth the space between the Mouth and the Chinn whence ariseth the Concord Diapente the bigger Joynt of the Thumb giveth the length of the Mouth the space betwixt the top of the Chinn and the Dint under the Lower Lip answereth to the lesser Joynt of the Thumb and is as much as from the Nose to the same Dint wherefore from the greater Joynt there is a Sesquialter proportion and a Concord Diatesseron the last Joynt of each Finger is double to the length of the Naile and makeeth a Diapason from the middst between the Eye-brows to the outward Corner of the Eye is as much as from thence to the Eare the heighth of the Fore-head the length of the Nose and the length of the Mouth are Vnisons the breadth of the Hand and Foot are all one the length of the Foot in respect of the breadth makeeth a double Supra bi partient and a Diapason and a Diatesseron The breadth of the Foot to his height at the Instep makes a Sesquialter and a Diatesseron the breadth of the Hand is double to the heighth the Arches of the Eye-browes are equall to the Arch of the Vpper Lip at the Division of the Mouth the breadth of the Nose and the Eye is all one and either of them half the length of the nose the navile is the midst betwixt the nose and the Knee from the top of the Shoulder to the Elbow and from thence to the Hand is a Diatesseron the space between the lower end of the Eare and the Joynt of the Shoulder is half as much as the breadth of the Breast at the Shoulders which maketh a double Sesquialter the whole breadth of the Body to the space between the top of the Head and the Throat-Bone makes a Quadruple proportion whence ariseth a Disdiapason the same proportion hath the Cubit or lower Part of the Arme from the Elbow to the top of the Middle Finger with the breadth of the Body by the Armes spread abroad the breadth of the Flanckes is double to the Thigh or a Diapason the length of a Man is all one with his breadth The breadth of the Back at the Arme-pits of the Hippes at the Buttocks and of the Leggs at the Knees in respect of the Soles of the Feet make a triple Sesquitertia the like is from the space of the Head to the Breast-pit the Diameter of the Head at the Forehead to the depth thereof that is between the Eyes and the Nape of the Head is a Sesquioctava whence ariseth a Tone the circumference of the Fore-head at the Temples is a Quadruple to his heigth or a Diapason the heighth of the Face and the space between the Chinn and the Throat-Bone makes a triple proportion or a Diapason and Diapente And thus if we should proceed we might finde in the Head all the other proportions of the smallest Parts together with their Concord most exactly which for Brevities sake I omit hasteing to the Measures of all the Parts which are truly Symmetrical and correspondent to the Parts of the VVorld The Proportion of a Mans Body of Ten faces THe proportion of a long and slender Body must be patterned after the Body of Mars the god of Warr amongst the Gentiles who by reason of his Heat and Dryness hath a long and slender Body agreeable thereunto and may also serve for any other Body of that nature as being Boysterous Cholerick Cruel Martial Mutinous Rash and prone to Anger as are all active and strong men by reason of the bigness of their Bones void of much Flesh which causeth them to be of a hard and sharp Body with great Joynts and big Nostrils dilated with Heat whose Eyes Mouth and other passages are correspondent as in his due place shall be more particularly shewed The breadth of the Hand being divided into Four Parts maketh the Four Fingers from the top of the Middle Finger to the Elbow is the Fourth Part of the whole Body And this proportion is of such indifferent Beauty that sparing the Martial asperity and bouldness it may sit divers other slender and noble Bodyes as occasion shall serve The extravigant Proportion of Ten Heads SInce my purpose is to Handle this matter exactly it shall not be amiss briefly to touch the sleight proportion of Ten Heads delivered by Albert Durer for although it be in truth to slender in all Mens Judgements yet I may not omit it because it hath the authority of so Famous a Man in the Skill of Painting as Germany cannot match again First then this proportion is in length from the top of the Head to the Chinn a tenth part of the whole thence backwards to the top of the Fore-head an Eleventh The face may be divided into Three equal Parts as the rest are The Proportion of