A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
That every Part be proportioned to its Whole
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Chap. XII.That every Part be proportioned to its Whole.

If a man be short and thick, be careful that all his members be of the same nature, viz. short arms and thick, large hands, short fingers, with broad joints; and so of the rest.