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Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, fabricated effectually 1490

Vitruvian Man
Italian: 50'uomo vitruviano
Artist	Leonardo da Vinci
Year	c. 1490
Type	Pen and ink with wash over metalpoint on newspaper
Dimensions	34.vi cm × 25.5 cm (13.6 in × 10.0 in)
Location	Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy

The Vitruvian Homo (Italian: 50'uomo vitruviano [ˈlwɔːmo vitruˈvjaːno]; originally known equally Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio , lit. 'The proportions of the homo body according to Vitruvius') is a cartoon made past the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci in virtually 1490.^[1] It is accompanied by notes based on the piece of work of the Roman architect Vitruvius. The drawing, which is in ink on paper, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square.

The cartoon represents Leonardo's concept of the ideal human body proportions. Its inscription in a square and a circle comes from a description by the ancient Roman builder Vitruvius in Volume Iii of his treatise De architectura. Yet, equally has been demonstrated, Leonardo did not represent Vitruvius'due south proportions of the limbs but rather included those he found himself afterward measuring male models in Milan.^[ii] While the drawing is named after Vitruvius, some scholars today question the appropriateness of such a title, given that information technology was first used in the 1490s.^[2]

First published in reproduction in 1810, the drawing did non attain its present fame until further reproduced in the later 19th century, and it is not articulate that it influenced artistic practice in Leonardo's day or later. It is kept in the Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe of the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice, Italy, under reference 228. Like well-nigh works on paper, information technology is displayed to the public only occasionally, and then it is not part of the normal exhibition of the museum.^{[three] [4]} The piece of work was recently on display at the Louvre'southward exhibit of Leonardo's work, from 24 October 2019 to 24 February 2020 equally part of an understanding betwixt France and Italy.^{[v] [half-dozen]}

Subject area and championship [edit]

Vitruvian Man, illustration in the edition of De architectura past Vitruvius; illustrated edition by Cesare Cesariano (1521)

Leonardo'south epitome demonstrates the blend of mathematics and art during the Renaissance and demonstrates his deep understanding of proportion. In addition, the picture represents a cornerstone of his attempts to relate human being to nature. Encyclopædia Britannica online states, "Leonardo envisaged the great motion-picture show nautical chart of the human being body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Human being as a cosmografia del minor mondo (cosmography of the microcosm). He believed the workings of the human body to exist an analogy for the workings of the universe."^[7]

According to Leonardo'due south accompanying text, written in mirror writing,^[8] information technology was made as a study of the proportions of the (male) human body as described in Vitruvius's De architectura 3.1.ii–3, which reads:

For the human torso is so designed by nature that the face up, from the chin to the pinnacle of the forehead and the lowest roots of the hair, is a tenth part of the whole height; the open hand from the wrist to the tip of the centre finger is just the same; the head from the mentum to the crown is an eighth, and with the neck and shoulder from the top of the breast to the everyman roots of the pilus is a 6th; from the middle of the chest to the summit of the crown is a quaternary. If we take the meridian of the face itself, the altitude from the bottom of the chin to the under side of the nostrils is 1 3rd of it; the olfactory organ from the under side of the nostrils to a line between the eyebrows is the same; from there to the everyman roots of the hair is also a tertiary, comprising the forehead. The length of the human foot is one sixth of the height of the torso; of the forearm, one 4th; and the breadth of the breast is likewise one fourth. The other members, likewise, have their own symmetrical proportions, and it was by employing them that the famous painters and sculptors of antiquity attained to great and countless renown. Similarly, in the members of a temple there ought to exist the greatest harmony in the symmetrical relations of the different parts to the full general magnitude of the whole. So once more, in the human torso the central point is naturally the omphalus. For if a human being be placed flat on his dorsum, with his hands and feet extended, and a pair of compasses centred at his navel, the fingers and toes of his ii hands and anxiety volition touch the circumference of a circumvolve described therefrom. And just equally the human torso yields a circular outline, so also a foursquare effigy may be found from information technology. For if we measure the distance from the soles of the anxiety to the acme of the caput, and so apply that measure to the outstretched arms, the latitude will be found to be the same as the elevation, as in the case of plane surfaces which are perfectly square.^[ix]

— 10 Books on Architecture, Vitruvius

While Leonardo shows direct noesis of the work of Vitruvius, his drawing does not follow the description of the ancient text. In cartoon the circle and square he observes that the square cannot take the aforementioned centre as the circle,^[10] simply is centered at the groin.^[eleven] This aligning is the innovative part of Leonardo's drawing and what distinguishes it from before illustrations. He too departs from Vitruvius by drawing the arms raised to a position in which the fingertips are level with the top of the head, rather than Vitruvius's much lower angle, in which the arms form lines passing through the navel.

It may be noticed past examining the drawing that the combination of arm and leg positions creates sixteen unlike poses. The pose with the arms straight out and the anxiety together is seen to exist inscribed in the superimposed foursquare. On the other paw, the spread-eagle pose is seen to exist inscribed in the superimposed circle.

Leonardo's collaboration with Luca Pacioli, the author of Divina proportione (Divine Proportion)^[12] have led some to speculate that he incorporated the golden ratio in Vitruvian Homo, merely this is not supported by any of Leonardo'due south writings,^{[13] [14]} and its proportions exercise not friction match the aureate ratio precisely.^[xv] Vitruvian Man is probable to take been fatigued before Leonardo met Pacioli.

Inspiration and possible collaboration [edit]

Many artists attempted to design figures which would satisfy Vitruvius' merits that a human being could fit into both a circle and a square, with the primeval known being by Francesco di Giorgio Martini in the 1480s.^{[16] [17]} Leonardo may accept been influenced by the work of his friend Giacomo Andrea, an architect and adept on Vitruvius, with whom Leonardo records as having dined in 1490. Leonardo too directly references "Andrea's Vitruvius".^[17] Andrea's drawing features erasure marks indicating its unique creation.^{[17] [11]} As with Leonardo'southward Vitruvian Man, Andrea's circle is centered on the omphalos, merely but one pose is included.^[11]

Translation of the text [edit]

The text is in two parts, higher up and below the prototype.^{[a] [b]} The upper office paraphrases Vitruvius:

Vetruvio, architect, puts in his work on architecture that the measurements of man are in nature distributed in this manner: that is a palm is four fingers, a foot is 4 palms, a cubit is vi palms, iv cubits make a man, a pace is four cubits, a human is 24 palms and these measurements are in his buildings. If you open your legs enough that your head is lowered by one-fourteenth of your height and raise your hands enough that your extended fingers impact the line of the acme of your head, know that the centre of the extended limbs will be the navel, and the infinite between the legs will exist an equilateral triangle.

The lower section of text gives these proportions:

The length of the outspread arms is equal to the summit of a man; from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is i-tenth of the acme of a human; from below the chin to the top of the head is one-eighth of the elevation of a man; from above the chest to the superlative of the caput is one-sixth of the pinnacle of a homo; from to a higher place the chest to the hairline is i-7th of the height of a man. The maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of the height of a man; from the breasts to the top of the head is a quarter of the height of a man; the altitude from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of the height of a man; the altitude from the elbow to the armpit is one-8th of the height of a man; the length of the hand is ane-tenth of the height of a human; the root of the penis is at one-half the acme of a human; the foot is 1-seventh of the height of a man; from below the foot to below the knee is a quarter of the height of a man; from below the knee to the root of the penis is a quarter of the height of a man; the distances from below the chin to the olfactory organ and the eyebrows and the hairline are equal to the ears and to one-tertiary of the confront.

The points determining these proportions are marked with lines on the drawing. Below the drawing is a single line equal to a side of the square and divided into four cubits, of which the outer 2 are divided into six palms each, two of which have the mirror-text annotation "palmi"; the outermost two palms are divided into iv fingers each, and are each annotated "diti".

Provenance [edit]

The cartoon was purchased from Gaudenzio de' Pagave by Giuseppe Bossi,^[eighteen] who described, discussed and illustrated it in his monograph on Leonardo's The Last Supper, Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci (1810).^[19] The post-obit yr he excerpted the section of his monograph concerned with the Vitruvian Man and published it every bit Delle opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci intorno alla simmetria de' Corpi Umani (1811), with a dedication to his friend Antonio Canova.^[20]

After Bossi'due south death in 1815 the Vitruvian Man was caused in 1822, along with a number of his drawings, by the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italia, and has remained at that place since.^[21] After the Louvre requested the drawing for a major exhibition of Leonardo's works to open on 24 October 2019, the Italy Nostra argued that the drawing was too fragile to exist transported.^[22] At a hearing on 16 October 2019, a judge ruled that the group had not proven that the piece of work was too fragile to travel, but fix a maximum corporeality of light for the drawing to be exposed to too as a subsequent residue period to offset its overall exposure to light. Italy'south Minister for Cultural Affairs tweeted that "Now a smashing cultural operation can start between Italia and France on the two exhibitions most Leonardo in France and Raphael in Rome."^[23]

Come across also [edit]

• Anthropometry – Measurement of the human private
• Artistic canons of torso proportions
• Leonardo'south robot
• Modulor – Scale of proportions past Le Corbusier
• T-pose, figurer animation term for a pose resembling one of the two postures of the Vitruvian Man
• World in Activeness – British investigative current affairs TV programme, aired on ITV from 1963 to 1998, used this paradigm every bit its logo.

Notes [edit]

1. ^ To a higher place the paradigm:

   Vetruvio, architecto, mecte nella sua op(er)a d'architectura, chelle misure dell'omo sono dalla natura
   disstribuite inquessto modo cioè che iv diti fa i palmo, et iv palmi fa ane pie, six palmi fa un chubito, 4
   cubiti fa 1 human being, he 4 chubiti fa 1 passo, he 24 palmi fa one homo ecqueste misure son ne' sua edifiti.
   Settu ap(r)i ta(n)to le ga(m)be chettu chali da chapo one/14 di tua altez(z)a e ap(r)i e alza tanto le b(r)acia che cholle lunge dita tu tochi la linia della
   somita del chapo, sappi che 'l cie(n)tro delle stremita delle
   ap(er)te me(1000)bra fia il bellicho. Ello spatio chessi truova infralle ga(m)be fia tria(north)golo equilatero

2. ^ Below the epitome:

   Tanto ap(r)e fifty'omo nele b(r)accia, qua(n)to ella sua alteza.
   Dal nasscimento de chapegli al fine di sotto del mento è il decimo dell'altez(z)a del(l)'uomo. Dal di socto del mento alla som(m)i-
   tà del chapo he l'octavo dell'altez(z)a dell'omo. Dal di sop(r)a del pecto alla som(m)ità del chapo fia il sexto dell'omo. Dal di so-
   p(r)a del pecto al nasscime(north)to de chapegli fia la sectima parte di tucto fifty'omo. Dalle tette al di sop(r)a del chapo fia
   la quarta parte dell'omo. La mag(thou)iore larg(h)ez(z)a delle spalli chontiene insè [la oct] la quarta parte dell'omo. Dal go-
   mito alla punta della mano fia la quarta parte dell'omo, da esso gomito al termine della isspalla fia la octava
   parte d'esso omo; tucta la mano fia la decima parte dell'omo. Il menb(r)o birile nasscie nel mez(z)o dell'omo. Il
   piè fia la sectima parte dell'omo. Dal di socto del piè al di socto del ginochio fia la quarta parte dell'omo.
   Dal di socto del ginochio al nasscime(n)to del memb(r)o fia la quarta parte dell'omo. Le parti chessi truovano infra
   il me(n)to e 'l naso e 'l nasscime(n)to de chapegli e quel de cigli ciasscuno spatio p(er)se essimile alloreche è 'l terzo del volto

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Further reading [edit]

• Lester, Toby (2012). Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Ain Image . New York: Gratis Printing. ISBN9781439189238.

External links [edit]

• Willamette University site on Vitruvian Man
• Stanford Academy site on Vitruvian Human being
• Leonardo's Vitruvian Man
• Vitruvian Man Video
• Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, exhibition catalog fully online equally PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains fabric on Vitruvian Human being (run into index)

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