RENAISSANCE

This is a picture familiar to many: a robust middle-aged men, a naked, his arms slightly inclined lift, legs splayed, his head, feet and fingers, each endpoint, just an external round. The painting clearly visible stack with another image: the man arms Stretch standing, with his head, feet and fingers, each endpoint, just an external square. This is the famous painting "The Vitruvian Man" (Homo Vitruvianus), from the Renaissance art of great masters of the Da Vinci of hand painted name is taken under the name of the ancient Roman outstanding architect Vitruvius (Vitruvii) the architect had praised in his book "building ten Books" human proportion and the golden section.

       Vitruvian, Vitruvian Man (Vitruvian Man) is the surname of an early 1st century AD Roman engineers, he named Mark Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio). He has written an architectural masterpiece, called "Building 10", its contents, including various aspects of Roman city planning, engineering and architectural art. Since there is no uniform standard of measurement in the construction, Vitruvius in the book about the proportion of the body's natural building measure, and summed up the law of the proportion of body structure.This is a sketch, frame cm, 25 cm wide. Inception, has been regarded as one of the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous collection in Venice, Italy Institute.

           The center of the natural body is the navel, because people with open hands and feet, for the supine position, and then to his navel as the center and draw a circle with a compass, his fingers and toes will be circumferential contact. draw a circle in the human body, and can draw a square in the human body. by foot amount to the top of the head, and this measure moved to open both hands, then you will find the height and width equal, like the plane on a ruler to determine the square. "

           Look at from the Vitruvian in the book before and after the exposition, he is talking about the equilibrium of the temple, and balanced to the turn ratio may. The architect of the Roman period, the ratio is subject to a certain modulus of a balanced approach in all construction in detail and the overall. "In fact, there is no balance or proportion of the location of any temple that is a beautiful gesture of the human body, have a proper allocation of body" (see "Construction Ten Books, Book III). It is based on the understanding of human proportion, Vitruvius emphasized: "If the natural components of the human body corresponds to the limb in accordance with the proportion comprehensive shape, then the ancients seems to have to provide for: the completion of the construction detail for all appearance should maintain the correct measure aspects.
 

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