Facial proportions: “The average head is five eyes wide. If you draw a triangle connecting the outer corners of the eyes with the middle of the lower lip, all sides will be the same length. In a face viewed frontally, the width of the mouth is the distance between the centers of the eyes.”

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Facial proportions: “The average head is five eyes wide. If you draw a triangle connecting the outer corners of the eyes with the middle of the lower lip, all sides will be the same length. In a face viewed frontally, the width of the mouth is the distance between the centers of the eyes.”

— Peter Steinhart, The Undressed Art: Why We Draw.

Check the portraits in this gallery. Do they conform to these rules? Check the ones in the gallery across the mezzanine from an earlier time period. Do those?

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