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A Renaissance Artist-Engineer Icon – Vitruvian Man
- Isamu 10y agoI never knew that in this drawing Leonardo was trying his hand at illustrating a well-known passage from Vitruvius, thus the name. Leonardo was interested in human proportions, and made a lot of notes of comparative anatomy, motivated mostly I think by his interest in accurate artistic depictions. I have used the Vitruvian Man to remember that my arm-span is roughly the same as my height, when it comes to estimating measurements.
- wavefunction 10y agoI wonder if the submitter watched the same program last night on da Vinci that I did... It was quite interesting, especially because they persuasively showed Vitruvian Man was likely developed in conjunction with a close friend and collaborator de Ferrara. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man#Evidence_of_collaboration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man#Evidence_of_coll...