looking for an image / recherche iconographique

ANTHOS · Post by **ANTHOS** » 15 Dec 2005 00:49

Hello all

I am looking for a specific image

It's the one that features (or featured) on the BBC documentary programme Panorama. It's a pencil drawnig of two men superimprosed who are spreading their arms and legs out. It looks like a diagram from the Rennaissance period.

Any ideas what it is and where i can find it?

Thanks

Andreas

didine · Post by **didine** » 15 Dec 2005 01:53

Is that the drawing you're looking for? (Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci)

Osama · Post by **Osama** » 15 Dec 2005 10:11

Hey we have that drawing in my campus! Leonardo da Vinci is the artist.

ANTHOS · Post by **ANTHOS** » 15 Dec 2005 11:45

yes ! thanks didine !

i should have known that...

pc2 · Post by **pc2** » 27 Dec 2005 23:33

salutations,

this drawing was made to illustrate the mathematical (geometry) perfection of the body. for example, the arm duplicated and rotated with the shoulder as vertex make an angle with the original arm. the same thing with the legs... and also notice that this rotation of the arms and legs is completed with a circumference around the body, with the geometrical center being the middle of the body, and the legs are radius.

best regards,