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As
the orginal "Renaissance Man," Leonardo da Vinci’s works have
influenced artists, scientists, architects, and great thinkers for
centuries, inform Peggy Carouthers, writer, editor, and custom content manager based in California.
Along with the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, his Vitruvian Man drawing is one of the most iconic images in the history of Western art.
Drawn with pen and ink on paper, Da Vinci completed the Vitruvian Man around 1490 when he was an apprentice in Andrea del Verrocchio’s workshop, where Da Vinci learned about architectural and technological design.
In the drawing, Da Vinci depicts a nude man standing inside a circle and a square with arms and legs drawn in two positions. The drawing was an attempt to illustrate principles of Vitruvius, a Roman architect who described the proportions of the human body in De architectura. Yet Da Vinci is not the only—or even the first—artist to attempt illustrating Virtruvius’s proportions, though his work is the most famous. Others, such as Francesco di Giorgio Martini had attempted it as early as the 1480s...
Today, Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is housed at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, Italy, though it is rarely displayed for the public, largely because the drawing is fragile and must be constantly monitored and protected from direct light. Despite arguments from critics who opposed the move due to the drawing’s state, it was displayed at the Louvre in December 2019 in an exhibition that lasted eight weeks commemorating the 500th anniversary of Da Vinci’s death in France, giving visitors a rare look at the manuscript.
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Source: Art & Object
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| The History and Influence of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man Photo: Wikimedia Commons |
Drawn with pen and ink on paper, Da Vinci completed the Vitruvian Man around 1490 when he was an apprentice in Andrea del Verrocchio’s workshop, where Da Vinci learned about architectural and technological design.
In the drawing, Da Vinci depicts a nude man standing inside a circle and a square with arms and legs drawn in two positions. The drawing was an attempt to illustrate principles of Vitruvius, a Roman architect who described the proportions of the human body in De architectura. Yet Da Vinci is not the only—or even the first—artist to attempt illustrating Virtruvius’s proportions, though his work is the most famous. Others, such as Francesco di Giorgio Martini had attempted it as early as the 1480s...
Today, Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is housed at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, Italy, though it is rarely displayed for the public, largely because the drawing is fragile and must be constantly monitored and protected from direct light. Despite arguments from critics who opposed the move due to the drawing’s state, it was displayed at the Louvre in December 2019 in an exhibition that lasted eight weeks commemorating the 500th anniversary of Da Vinci’s death in France, giving visitors a rare look at the manuscript.
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Source: Art & Object
