Vitruvius

October 01, 2014 B.A.pictures Articles 0 comments

Somewhere in the alluring confines of Italy circa 1490 Leonardo Da Vinci sketches the Vitruvian Man. An illustration of ideal human proportions based on the geometric interoperations of an ancient Roman architect named Vitruvius. It was exactly this type of indefectible integration between art and science that made the conceptual advancements of renaissance era enduring to this day.

What has changed is the scientific understanding of the human body and its physiological capacity to be propelled greater than the mathematical principles of what Da Vinci thought ideal could be.

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