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Excerpt from Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design (Classic Reprint)Vasari's unit of measurement is the braccio,'and this term has been retained in place of the more familiar English equivalent cubit.'Vasari's braccio seems to be equal to about twenty-three inches or fifty-eight centi metres. This equation is given by Aurelio Gotti, and agrees with various dimensions Vasari ascribes to monu ments that can now be measured. A smaller unit is the palmo,'and this is not, as might be supposed, the breadth of a hand, but what we should rather call a span,'that is the space that can be covered by a hand trying to stretch an octave, and may be reckoned at about nine inches. In the matter of proper names, Vasari's own forms have in most cases been followed in the text, but not necessarily in the commentary. |
