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LUDWIG'S edition of the Vatican Copy.]
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Just so much as the part d a of the nude figure decreases in this
position so much does the opposite part increase; that is: in
proportion as the length of the part d a diminishes the normal
size so does the opposite upper part increase beyond its [normal]
size. The navel does not change its position to the male organ; and
this shrinking arises because when a figure stands on one foot, that
foot becomes the centre [of gravity] of the superimposed weight.
This being so, the middle between the shoulders is thrust above it
out of it perpendicular line, and this line, which forms the central
line of the external parts of the body, becomes bent at its upper
extremity [so as to be] above the foot which supports the body; and
the transverse lines are forced into such angles that their ends are
lower on the side which is supported. As is shown at a b c.
[Footnote: See Pl. XXII, No. 3.]
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OF PAINTING.
Note in the motions and attitudes of figures how the limbs vary, and
their feeling, for the shoulderblades in the motions of the arms and
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