4003536A Treatise on Painting — Of the Balance of Figures, Plate IX.John Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci
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Chap. LXXVIII.—Of the Balance of Figures, Plate IX.
If the figure rests upon one foot, the shoulder on that side will always be lower than the other; and the pit of the neck will fall perpendicularly over the middle of that leg which supports the body. The same will happen in whatever other view we see that figure, when it has not the arm much extended, nor any weight on its back, in its hand, or on its
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shoulder, and when it does not, either behind or before, throw out that leg which does not support the body.
