Vitruvian man

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1. VITRUVIAN MAN LEONARDO DA VINCI

2. The fascinating meaning of Vitruvian Man by Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian man is one of the most well-known images of Renaissance art, which may be a bit surprising since it seems to be just a pencil and ink drawing of a man with superimposed limbs inside a circle and a square . However, this drawing is much more than that; it´s the symbolic solution of Leonardo to an ancient mathematical problem that had some importance also in alchemy, in what is known as "squaring the circle."

3. The Roman architect Marco Vitruvius found all kinds of mathematical proportions in the human body , which he considred as the measure of all architectural construction , following the old dictum that man is the measure of all things : "No symmetry and no proportion Temple can have a regular plan, that is , it must have an exact ratio drawn from the members of a well-formed human figure“. Much has been speculated that many of the great temples of antiquity kept the golden ratio.

4. Learn how to draw like Da Vinci!