"Vitruvian Man" - is one of the most famous paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci, which is about in 1490 was placed in one of his journal.This illustration depicts a nude male figure in two positions, superimposed on each other.The figure of a man with arms and legs, divorced in hand, entered into a circle, and with divorced hands and feet brought together - in a square.Leonardo's Vitruvian Man symbolizes the canonical proportions.
figure in the magazine accompanied by explanatory inscriptions.If you examine it, it is actually possible to observe that the position of the hands and feet is not two positions, as it seems at first glance, and four.
Vitruvian Man as a work of art and as a scientific work
If you change poses the impression that the figure at the center of moves.But in reality, the navel of the figure remains fixed and the center of the square are the genitals.In the future, this technique is used to create Corbusier scale proportions that affected the architectural aesthetics of the XX century.In accordance with the accompanying text drawing was created in order to determine the proportion of the male body.The basis for drawing Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" became the treatise "Man Equilibre" architect Roman Vitruvius, whose name is called, and the image of the figure.This ancient Roman used the proportions of the human body for their studies in architecture.
symbol symmetry of the human body
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo Da Vinci - a way of life consistent state, the center of which is man.The figure shows the ideal in terms of the proportions of the male figure.The two positions - in circles and squares in the figure - reflect the dynamics and peace.Center of the body, the fixed square, is the phallus, the center of the moving figures - the solar plexus.Thus, a great artist conveys contradictory spirit (circle) and matter (square).
If the parties to supplement drawing Tetrad Heidegger, we get a symbolic image of the true state of man, half-divine, half-Mortal that relies feet on the ground and his head stays in Heaven.
Vitruvian Man - is not only a symbol of the hidden internal symmetry of the human body, but also a symbol of symmetry of the universe as a whole.
Interesting information
In today's world, drawing Da Vinci is not perceived by humanity as a symbol of the ideal proportions of the human, in particular, of the male body.This image symbolizes finding more human in the universe.
There is an interesting theory that Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man - the image of Christ.The artist worked on the restoration of the Shroud at the request of her keepers.Supposedly inspired by the image of Christ in the sanctuary, he carries the perfect proportions of his body on his drawing.So, it depicts the divine proportions of the human body.Da Vinci, placing the figure of a man in the center of the universe, depicted the man in the image of God.
