“Let there be a perfect relation betwixt the parts and the whole,” &c., or let them agree well together, which is the same thing. His meaning in this place is, to speak of the justness of proportions, and of the harmony which they make with one another. Many famous authors have thoroughly treated this matter. Amongst others, Paulo Lomazzo, whose first book speaks of nothing else; but there are so many sub-divisions, that a reader must have a good brain not to be turned with them. See those which our author has remarked in general, on the most beautiful statues of the ancients. I believe them to be so much the better, as they are more conformable to those which Vitruvius gives us in the first chapter of his third book; and which he tells us, that he learned from the artists themselves; because in the preface to his seventh book, he makes his boast to have had them from others, and particularly from architects and painters. _The Measures of a Human Body._ The ancients have commonly allowed eight heads to their figures, though some of them have but seven. But we ordinarily divide the figures into ten faces;[157] that is to say, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot; in the following manner: From the crown of the head to the forehead, is the third part of a face. The face begins at the root of the lowest hairs, which are upon the forehead, and ends at the bottom of the chin. The face is divided into three proportionable parts; the first contains the forehead, the second the nose, and the third the mouth and the chin. From the chin to the pit betwixt the collar-bones, are two lengths of a nose. From the pit betwixt the collar-bones to the bottom of the breast, one face. [158] From the bottom of the breasts to the navel, one face. [159] From the navel to the genitories, one face. From the genitories to the upper part of the knee, two faces. The knee contains half a face. From the lower part of the knee to the ankle, two faces. From the ankle to the sole of the foot, half a face. A man, when his arms are stretched out, is, from the longest finger of his right hand, to the longest of his left as broad as he is long. From one side of the breasts to the other, two faces. The bone of the arm, called humerus, is the length of two faces from the shoulder to the elbow. From the end of the elbow to the root of the little finger, the bone called cubitus, with part of the hand, contains two faces. From the box of the shoulder-blade to the pit betwixt the collar-bones, one face. If you would be satisfied in the measures of breadth, from the extremity of one finger to the other, so that this breadth should be equal to the length of the body, you must observe, that the boxes of the elbows with the humerus, and of the humerus with the shoulder-blade, bear the proportion of half a face, when the arms are stretched out. The sole of the foot is the sixth part of the figure. The hand is the length of a face.