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The Vitruvian Man is a world renowned drawing with accompanying
notes created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1492 as recorded
in one of his journals. It depicts a nude male figure in two
superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and
simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and
text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often,
Proportions of Man. It is on display in the Gallerie dell´
Accademia in Venice, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci, - Italian Renaissance architect, musician,
anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer and painter
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2,
1519) was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer,
inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and
writer. He was born and raised near Vinci, Italy, the illegitimate
son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant woman, Caterina. He
had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of
Vinci". His full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci",
meaning "Leonardo, son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci." Leonardo has
often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a
man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was equalled only by his
powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the
greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely
talented person ever to have lived. It is primarily as a painter
that Leonardo was and is renowned. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa
and The Last Supper occupy unique positions as the most famous, the
most illustrated and most imitated portrait and religious painting
of all time. Their fame is approached only by Michelangelo´s
Creation of Adam. Leonardo´s drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also
iconic. As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of
his own time, conceptually inventing a helicopter, a tank, the use
of concentrated solar power, a calculator, a rudimentary theory of
plate tectonics, the double hull, and many others. Relatively few
of his designs were constructed or were feasible during his
lifetime. Some of his smaller inventions such as an automated
bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of
wire entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. He greatly
advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil
engineering, optics, and the study of water. Of his works, perhaps
15 paintings survive, together with his notebooks, which contain
drawings, scientific diagrams, and notes.
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Mi.No. 4502 Bulgarien
2001, 8. Januar. Das neue Jahrtausend. Odr.; gez. K
13.
ghb) Abbildung nach einer Illustration von Leonardo da Vinci
zu Luca Paciolis Buch „De divina proportione“
(1496)
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