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Vitruvian Man (circa 1490) by Leonardo da Vinci, from the Original, Framed Art Print
Vitruvian Man (circa 1490) by Leonardo da Vinci, from the Original, Framed Art Print
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Original public domain art from the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, digitally enhanced. Pen, brown ink and watercolour over metalpoint on paper.
The Vitruvian Man is the famous drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) dated to circa 1490. Inspired by the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the drawing depicts a nude man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in both a circle and square.
It was described by the art historian Carmen C Bambach as "justly ranked among the all-time iconic images of Western civilization". Although not the only known drawing of a man inspired by the writings of Vitruvius, the work is a unique synthesis of artistic and scientific ideals and often considered an archetypal representation of the High Renaissance.
The drawing represents Leonardo da Vinci's conception of ideal body proportions, originally derived from Vitruvius but influenced by his own measurements, the drawings of his contemporaries, and the De Pictura treatise on science and architectural optics by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472).
Leonardo produced the Vitruvian Man in Milan and the work was probably passed to his student Francesco Melzi. It later came into the possession of Venanzio de Pagave, who convinced the engraver Carlo Giuseppe Gerli to include it in a book of Leonardo's drawings, which widely disseminated the previously little-known image.
It was later owned by Giuseppe Bossi (1717-1815) the artist and art administrator, who wrote early scholarship on it, and eventually sold to the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice in 1822, where it has remained since. Due to its sensitivity to light, the drawing rarely goes on public display, but it was borrowed by the Louvre in 2019 for their exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death.
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