Treatise index: the human figure in motion and repose
Part Three chapter list — expression, poses, leaping, and the weight of the body
This is an index leaf of the Codex Urbinas, headed 'Terza' (the Third Part of the Treatise on Painting), listing chapter titles with cross-references to their page numbers ('a car.'). The entries concern the human figure: how to depict a man in despair, the correspondence of the limbs, laughing and weeping, and the poses of infants, women, and youths. Further headings treat the mechanics of the body — rising from a seat, jumping, pushing and pulling, and the ponderation (weight distribution) of standing and moving figures. No drawing appears; the leaf is entirely a scribal list of headings in Melzi's compilation.
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Expression and the correspondence of the limbs
The opening headings list how to represent a man in despair, the correspondences of the limbs, and the difference between laughing and weeping. A later entry treats the correspondence one half of a man's breadth has with the other half.
Ponderation of standing and moving bodies
Several headings concern the ponderation of bodies that do not move, of a man who rests his weight more on one foot than the other, and of a man coming to rest upon his feet. Another treats local motion, more or less swift.
Rising, pushing, pulling, and leaping
The list covers a man rising from a seat on level ground, jumping and what increases the leap, and the motion of figures in pushing or pulling. One heading notes the three motions found in a man's upward leap.
The movement of four-footed animals
One heading is dedicated to four-footed animals and how they move, set among the studies of figure movement.