Math through Art Docent Guide 10.10.18

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Information about human proportion

According to the early Roman architect Vitruvius, there are certain proportions that are typical of the human body. These include the following:

    A palm is the width of four fingers

    A foot is the width of four palms

    A man’s height is 24 palms

    The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height

    The distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is 1/10 of a man’s height

    The distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is 1/8 of a man’s height

    The distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is 1/5 of a man’s height

    The distance from the elbow to the armpit is 1/8 of a man’s height

    The length of the hand is 1/10 of a man’s height

    The distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose is 1/3 of the length of the head

    The distance from the hairline to the eyebrows is 1/3 of the length of the face

    The length of the ear is 1/3 of the length of the face

Leonardo da Vinci noted that the length of the human face (from chin to top of the head) is 1/7 of the length of the human body

Fernand Leger, Abstraction, 1926

Information about one-point perspective

Example from Leonardo da Vinci

• Amédée Ozenfant, Accords

Gallery 26

• Islamic Star and Cross Tiles

Additional Background Information

Works of art in Selected Works used in Math through art tour

Perspective

Information on Harbor with Roman Ruins by Leonardo Coccorante

_{The subjects of Leonardo Coccorante’s landscape paintings range from dramatic, imaginary scenes to topographically correct views of his homeland, Naples, Italy.  Invented scenes, like Harbor with Roman Ruins, encouraged artists to stretch their imagination and offered them an opportunity to demonstrate the strength of their creative ability.  In this work, whose large scale suggests that it served as a stage set design, Coccorante highlights the magnificence of antiquity with ruins that tower over diminutive figures in the foreground.} 

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