The Vitruvian Man

In his early forties, Leonardo da Vinci was already an accomplished and recognized artist. He was interested in science and wanted to understand everything. The Vitruvian Man, this famous annotated drawing dating from 1490, represents a man in two superimposed positions. It is the representation of the ideal and perfect proportions of the human body. Drawn on paper, this man at the center of the universe symbolized here by the square and the circle establishes the link between all the sciences studied by the Great Leonardo. This drawing and several others will be included in the book La Divine Proportion by Luca Pacioli. The work has become the symbol of the Renaissance.