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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.
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci. Other such systems of 'ideal proportions' in painting and sculpture include Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, based on a record of body proportions made by the architect Vitruvius, [23] in the third book of his series De architectura. Rather than setting a canon of ideal body proportions for others to follow ...
Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the work of Leon Battista Alberti, and other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture. [1]
Leonardo da Vinci believed that the ideal human proportions were determined by the harmonious proportions that he believed governed the universe, such that the ideal man would fit cleanly into a circle as depicted in his famed drawing of Vitruvian Man (c. 1492), [21] as described in a book by Vitruvius.
This ratio, approximately 1.618:1 and denoted by the Greek letter Phi (φ), has inspired various works of art throughout history, including Leonardo Da Vinci’s 1490 Vitruvian Man, which depicts ...
The Vitruvian Man developed by Leonardo da Vinci based on the description of Vitruvius' ideal ratio of the human body. Commemorative coin illustrating Le Corbusier's Modulor Church of Sant'Alessandro, Lucca, Italy: proportions of first construction phase of the façade ad triangulum and today's façade ad quadratum.
Vitruvian Man c. 1492 by Leonardo da Vinci. Based on proportions identified by Vitruvius, the drawing shows a man where the arm span is equal to the height, giving an ape index of 1. Ape index, ape factor, [1] or gorilla index is slang or jargon used to describe a measure of the ratio of an individual's arm span relative to their height.
The Vitruvian Man, c. 1490. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) ... One of Leonardo's drawings, the Vitruvian Man, is a study of the proportions of the human body, ...