The text details how to break down and depict the human body for aspiring artists by dividing it into three main parts: chest, navel, and lower body. It provides instructions on measuring and drawing different body parts such as the shoulders, hips, and profile views. These divisions help artists simplify the process of rendering the body, with guides to reflect different figures and facilitate learning.
The First Part
XXIV.
After we have described and taught how to make the upper parts, we are now passing to the same body, which is the principal; because for beginner painters, one finds it whole, and it is more difficult. Therefore, I have divided it into two, and explained from the chin to the noble part, and represented it in several forms: one from the front, one from a side, and another from behind, as the figure A B C D demonstrates. This illustrates the way it is divided into three equal parts: the letter B C is for the chest until it reaches the bone of the heart, the next is for the navel, and the last until the noble part; while the letter C is for the width pick at this part that composes the measure of the shoulders, so measured a little less than the same of the body, so it also takes from the hips, and extending to the profile takes, Ay to the right of the heart from G, until H, the navel the second, and from there to L, the last part. Now we come to the width measured the body upon the width of these parts, in the middle, a little less, but above the benches & the same of the chest, & shoulders. I bring it to the third figure, which is from behind, and finally enters the two shoulders to square, the middle of the body a little less, above the benches, and the seat of the buttocks, also squared, and thus returned a little more in profile, such that it fills the same way of the middle body in profile.
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