VITRUVIAN MAN

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Today we are going to recapitulate and gather information from what we used in the previous post, as we are going to continue with art, but more specifically, we are going to talk about a painting, known as "Vitruvian Man", a work by Leonardo da Vinci dating back to 1490 AD.

To begin to introduce the subject, let's delve a little into history. It was Euclid who first wrote down all the rules of geometry; but it was not until 20 BC that the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius wrote his work "Ten Books of Architecture", thanks to which the environment we see today is still being built, and he was the first to write down the proportions of how structures should be built.

It was not until the Renaissance that interest in Vitruvius grew, and around 1520 AD his work was translated. However, da Vinci had already sketched the "Vitruvian Man" in his sketchbook, an image that most of society has burned into our minds. 

In the following image: the "man" depicted represents the human being. The circles, squares and ellipses surrounding the figures are calculations of the physical geometry of the Vitruvian man, who was the first to write down his observations on the human body: the symmetry of two eyes, two arms, two legs, two breasts, must be an inspiration from the gods.

For example, Vitruvius found that the human face equals one tenth of the total height of the body, the foot equals one sixth of the total height of the body, and so on. So da Vinci only had to make a sketch of everything Vitruvius discovered, thus giving the work its name. 

Furthermore, years later it was discovered that the golden number (Φ or 1.618), which represents the perfect proportion of the human body, is present in all of nature, and is therefore known as the cornerstone of all life and the hidden code in architecture.

And this is the end of today's information, stay tuned and don't miss any of the news and information about geometry that are still to come. Thank you very much to all of you!