Classical Feet

I have been regularly reading the Barnes and Noble free Nook book of the week. In one free book entitled "Curious Folks Ask" by Sherry Seethaler, there is a chapter entitled "Toe The Line". In this chapter someone asked about why the second toe was sometimes longer than the big toe. The longer second toe, also called Morton's Foot, occurs in women more than in men and in some ethnic groups. The author calls the foot with the longer second toe, the Greek Foot. The other foot, with the big toe the longest is the Egyptian foot.

The Statue of Liberty has the Greek foot. The sculptor for Miss Liberty was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi a classical trained artist. Lenonardo da Vinci as well as other Renaissance artists studied the Classical Greek rules for sculpture and drawing. Then the Romans copied the Greek rules defining the body.