Vitruvian
man
The Vitruvian Man (click
here for large
picture) is a famous drawing with accompanying notes by
Leonardo da Vinci
made around the year 1490 in one of his journals. It depicts a naked male
figure in two superimposed positions with his arms apart and simultaneously
inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text are sometimes called
the Canon of Proportions.
The
drawing is in pen, ink, and watercolor over metalpoint, and measures 34.3 x
24.5 cm. It is currently part of the collection of the
Gallerie
dell'Accademia in
Venice.
According to Leonardo's notes in the
accompanying text,
written in
mirror writing, it was made as a study of the proportions of the
(male) human body as described in a treatise by the Ancient Roman architect
Vitruvius."
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