Quote by Vitruvius

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proport

Summary

This quote suggests that just as nature has meticulously designed the human body with elements that perfectly harmonize with the overall form, the Ancients believed that achieving the full realization of their creations also necessitated a similar harmony between the individual components and the final appearance of the work. In other words, there is an inherent beauty and balance in nature that the Ancients sought to replicate in their artistic endeavors by paying attention to the proportion and unity between the various elements that make up their creations.

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