Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The Other Vitruvian Man

The Other Vitruvian Man
When Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man,shown here, he was at work with something new: the attempt to illustrate the idea, set down by Vitruvius in the Ten Books, that the human body can be made to fit inside a circle and a square.

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