Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci (1498 (museum catalog; often cited traditionally as c. 1490))
Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man fuses <strong>geometry</strong>, <strong>anatomy</strong>, and <strong>humanist philosophy</strong> into a single sheet. A double‑posed male body is inscribed within a circle and a square, with text in mirror writing that tests classical rules against measured observation. The drawing operates as a visual thesis that the human body is a <strong>microcosm</strong> ordered by ratio and reason <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
