Della scultura -- POMPONIO GAURICO

Speranza

Firenze, 1504.

A portrait bust, he writes, should be LIFE-SIZE ('di grandezza naturale').

The statue of a king (or a head of state) should be one and a half times life size.

The statue of a heroe, such as ERCOLE, should be TWICE life size.

Finally, gods should be THREE times life size.