Physiognomy personality. Physiognomy is also sometimes referred to as anthroposcopy, though the expression was more common in the 19th century when the word originated. Notions of the relationship between an individual's outward appearance and inner character are historically ancient, and occasionally appear in early Greek poetry. Siddhars from ancient India are also known to have defined "samudrika lakshanam" that identifies personal characteristics with body features. Chinese physiognomy or face reading ("mianxiang") reaches back at least to the Northern Song period. The first indications of a developed physiognomic theory appear in fifth century BC Athens, with the works of Zopyrus (who was
Dynamism of a Human Body: Boxer in any type of motion or fixed presence, but rather in such a way that it would "decompose according to the tendencies of its forces". Despite the abstractness of the painting, the viewer can make out movement by view of the contours and bundles of muscles. In general, the series of Boccioni's dynamisms attempt to document progressive movement through its various elements. The work was part of a forty-six drawing series. These drawings were displayed in the spring of 1914 at Florence. Dynamism of a Human Body: Boxer Dynamism of a Human Body: Boxer is a dynamism drawing created by