Human figure (also known as the Vitruvian Man) with arms and legs outstretched, positioned within a square and circle representing the centre of 'cosmic geometry', with accompanying text Architect/Designer Vitruvius (c. 84 BC-c. 14 BC) Subject Date 1511 Image Date 1511 Style Renaissance Medium Print Library Reference EW E.f. 584 Orientation Portrait Colour Info Black and white Credit RIBA Collections Subject Human figure
SOURCE: Fra Giovanni Giocondo. M. Vitruvio, De Architectura libri decem additis (Venice, 1511), Book 3, p. 22 NOTES: Vitruvius's original treatise 'De architectura' was written during the first century BC. This 1511 edition was edited and augmented by Fra Giovanni Giocondo and was the first illustrated version of the treatise.
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