The Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian Man is one of the many famous pieces of artwork that Leonardo da Vinci drew. This picture, drawn in pen and ink is a man that is made up of perfect proportions. The picture is a man who fits into a circle and a square by moving the positions of his arms and legs. The reason the artwork is named "The Vitruvian Man" is because there was a man named Vitruvius in ancient Rome. Vitruvius was an architect who wrote a series of ten books on architecture. In the third volume of this ten book series he is talking about the temples and says that the temples should be based on the proportions of man because the human body is the model of perfection. He continues saying that a man can fit in the perfect geometric forms, a circle and a square with the arms and legs of the body extended.…