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The Vitruvian Man (Italian: L'uomo vitruviano; [ˈlwɔːmo vitruˈvjaːno]) is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490.
It was built between 1924 and 1931 at the site of a smaller 18th-century custom house, at a critical location that used to function as the central business district of San Juan during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the site of the main port of Puerto Rico (today the main cruise ship port section of Old San Juan) before the ...
September 22, 1977 (1 Ponce de León Ave. San Juan Antiguo: Beaux Arts casino building from 1917, used as an officers' club, music school, cultural headquarters, reception hall and event venue by the United States Army and the government of Puerto Rico throughout its history.
De re aedificatoria, title page of the 1541 edition Title page of 1550 edition, Florence. De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. [1]
Homage to Leonardo, sometimes referred to as Vitruvian Man for being a representation of the drawing of the same name by Leonardo da Vinci, [1] is an outdoor statue by Italian sculptor Enzo Plazzotta, located at Belgrave Square in central London, United Kingdom. The statue was completed posthumously by Plazzotta's assistant Mark Holloway in ...
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The former Spanish Navy Arsenal of San Juan (Spanish: Arsenal de la Marina Española), historically known as the San Juan Naval Station and also known as the Navy Arsenal of La Puntilla (Arsenal de la Marina de la Puntilla), the Arsenal of San Juan (Arsenal de San Juan) or simply El Arsenal, is a historic building complex and former Spanish Navy armory located in La Puntilla, a former ...
San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park Service-managed historic site which preserves and interprets the Spanish colonial-era fortification system of the city of San Juan, and features structures such as the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses. [3]