[Study of proportions] – Historic Reproduction
![[Study of proportions], [1949] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0fd12fb96379-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A nude man with arms and legs spread, inscribed within both a circle and a square, is the defining image in this 1949 facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci's drawing. Leonardo made the original pen-and-ink study around 1490, pairing the figure with notes drawn from Vitruvius, the Roman architect who described ideal human proportions. This reproduction is Tavola XVIII in Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich's 1949 study of Leonardo's drawings, published in Florence, which helped bring the sheet to a wider audience. The figure remains a touchstone for discussions of Renaissance anatomy and the meeting of art and mathematics.
| Created / published | [1949] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Figure drawings Reproductions 1940-1950.Facsimiles 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Also known as: Vitruvius or Vitruvian man. Illus. in: I disegni di Leonardo Di Venezia [...] / Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich. Florence : Lange, Domsch & Co., 1949, Tav. XVIII. |
| Subjects | Man--1480-1500. Anatomy--1480-1500. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,795 × 4,706 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221228 |
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