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English: Vitruvian Man
Date 1492
Medium Pen, ink, watercolour and metalpoint on paper
Dimensions Height: 343 mm (13.5 in). Width: 245 mm (9.65 in).
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JPEG file comment LEONARDO da Vinci

(b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise)

Vitruvian Man 1492 Pen, ink, watercolour and metalpoint on paper, 343 x 245 mm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

This celebrated drawing, probably the most famous by Leonardo, of a man with an athletic physique inscribed within a circle and a square illustrates the measurements of the ideal human body according to the rules of the Roman architect Vitruvius's De Architectura (first century B.C.).




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Author: LEONARDO da Vinci Title: Vitruvian Man Time-line: 1451-1500 School: Italian Form: graphics

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