The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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reproduced on Pl. VII, No. 1.]  
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The distance from the attachment of one ear to the other is equal to  
that from the meeting of the eyebrows to the chin, and in a fine  
face the width of the mouth is equal to the length from the parting  
of the lips to the bottom of the chin.  
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12.  
The cut or depression below the lower lip of the mouth is half way  
between the bottom of the nose and the bottom of the chin.  
The face forms a square in itself; that is its width is from the  
outer corner of one eye to the other, and its height is from the  
very top of the nose to the bottom of the lower lip of the mouth;  
then what remains above and below this square amounts to the height  
of such another square, a b is equal to the space between c  
d; d n in the same way to n c, and likewise s r, q  
p, h k are equal to each other.  
It is as far between m and s as from the bottom of the nose to  
the chin. The ear is exactly as long as the nose. It is as far from  
x to j as from the nose to the chin. The parting of the mouth  
seen in profile slopes to the angle of the jaw. The ear should be as  
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