Most people are familiar with Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man: A nude man, with his arms and legs stretched, inside a square within a circle. But few know the story behind the drawing — what drove ...
Maybe Vitruvian Man doesn't ring any bells, but you'd definitely recognize the drawing. A long-haired, naked man perfectly inscribed inside a circle and square? Created before his masterpieces The ...
Claudio Sgarbi says he "was totally astonished" when he examined a manuscript including a drawing that seemed to prefigure Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Vitruvian Man (C. 1490), Giacomo Andrea Da ...
The “Vitruvian Man,” which Leonardo drew in about 1490, seems to summarize all of his work During the Renaissance, the goal of art was the expression of harmony, and harmony is a matter of proportion.