(02-10-2016, 09:34 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Searcher - hey, you are right. It's strange that the points of division are the same: chin, navel, knee. The figures clearly aren't infants though. Maybe there is some symbolism behind drawing people with young childrens proportions? In a cosmological context the association with one year might be relevant. Just thinking out loud, I have no idea...
One of the things you'll find in many medieval and Renaissance drawings is that children are drawn like small adults. Perhaps it's because they were viewed that way, especially among the nobility where marriages were arranged in the toddler years and carried out in the early teens.
Also, I had another thought regarding adults. Many people were shorter then, often due to malnutrition. Perhaps some of them were proportioned differently. Also, among the nobility, deformities were common, due to inbreeding.