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The Vitruvian Man was based on the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, who correlated the measurements and design of the human body into architecture. Fewer than 20 da Vinci paintings are still in existence. Five of them are currently at the Louvre Museum, along with 22 drawings.
Da Vinci, who was born in in Italy, was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect and mathematician. Dr Allen said that da Vinci based the image on a statement by the Roman architect Vitruvius, who believed the ideally proportioned human figure could fit into a circle and a square. The identity of the model remains shrouded in mystery, but art historians believe Leonardo took some liberties in his drawing.
This work was not a portrait as much as a diligent depiction of a perfect male form designed by math, not shaped by life. Going off scant descriptions of the 15th-century artist as a younger man, some art historians have suggested Leonardo himself is his Vitruvian Man model.
As Lester told NPR: "He was described as being very finely built, strong, very beautiful with locks of hair that curled and went down to his shoulders. There are a couple of possible renderings of him, one that survives in a sculpture from Florence and another that's in a fresco from Milan, and they both look a bit like that figure as well.
That's the diagnosis that surgical lecturer Hutan Ashrafian made years after the fact: An inguinal hernia. Ashrafian further theorized that such an issue could have killed this Vitruvian Man, and if Leonardo modeled the figure off of a cadaver, it was possibly the hernia that did him in.
As the sketch originally appeared in a notebook, Vitruvian Man sat surrounded by handwritten notes regarding its observations about human proportion. Translated to English, they read in part: "Vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows that is that 4 fingers make 1 palm, and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height.
And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man; and these measures he used in his buildings. In , when the sheets were still the property of the De Pagave family, they were engraved and published by Carlo Giuseppe Gerli. The volume also contains drawings now in Venice, first and foremost amongst which the study of proportions generally known as Vitruvian Man. The sheet can in all probability be dated to the years Leonardo spent in Milan, even though its destination remains in part mysterious.
It is an extraordinary study of human proportions with an ideal figure in two different positions — with legs spread wide and with legs brought together — inscribed within the absolute forms of a circle and a square.
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