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DAVINCI - VITRUVIAN MAN
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Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
1490
Exposing everything!
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- Circle and square joined together in
a human form.
- Circle and square symbol of the
Philosopher's stone and their uniting represents
spiritualizing the material, and materializing the spiritual.
- Jim Morrison.
Hanging out |
- The Vitruvian Man is philosophical anatomy not medical
anatomy.
- It's all about the perfect proportions of the
body in relation to architecture.
- It is right side up.
- Perfect whole number
proportions, the bottom of the chin to the nose is 1/3 of the
face; 1 to 2 to 3 to 4.
- The circle and square were
considered the most perfect shapes in nature during the
Renaissance.
- For DaVinci, the temple was the closest
thing to God, the square within the circle, the dome, and he
was busy drawing many temples during this period.
| Leonardo would say that art is a science
'scienza' he sees something that perfectly fits its
function with no redundancy and no inadequacy as
being a perfectly beautiful thing, therefore, form,
function and beauty are locked in together and that
sheer perfection of the detail of everything out there
and its sheer mathematical and mechanical beauty is
what the human being should do when they make their
own things.
(Professor Martin
Kemp) |
One thing outside the square is the left
toe |
- It was quite a puzzle working out the proportions of the
square to the diameter of the circle and it is a mathematical
solution.
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The sketch is almost more asymmetrical; the
square is not centered in the circle and the corners of the
square fall
outside the circle.
- He used the navel as the center and
then slipped everything down to make it work and this shift
was his master stroke.
| If you understand the geometry of the human
body, when you design a little circular temple, the
ghost of the Vitruvian Man is behind this. It's a
reconstruction of nature on the basis of first
principles and there is no more prime principle in
Christianity than the human body.
(Professor Martin Kemp) |
The only thing outside the circle is the right
middle finger |
- Galileo's middle finger is
preserved in a museum, and was actually passed around for 200
years, but not as a saint, but as a heretic of the church.
- Leonardo's right hand, specifically his right middle finger, may have been affected by a fall-related nerve damage, possibly due to a fainting episode.
| Some scholars have attributed da Vinci’s late-in-life hand impairment to a stroke, although others have suggested that it was caused by Dupuytren’s contracture (also known as Vikings disease), a hand deformity that tends to develop over many years.
(minnpost.com) |
Outside the square there is also the left middle finger |
- The Assassin's Creed video game series depicts a
fictional millennia-old struggle between the Order of
Assassins, who fight for peace and free will, and the Knights
Templar.
- In Assassin's Creed the Levantine assassins
amputated their left ring finger, although there are some
depictions of the right hand too, in order to use the hidden blade.
- The cutting of the ring finger also held a deep significance for the Brotherhood.
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Assassin's Creed - The Hidden Blade's Finger Sacrifice Explained.
| It’s also symbolism. The ‘cutting’ means a great change in your life. Think of Luke Skywalker losing his hand. In the
Bible Adam and Eve see a flaming sword swinging in all directions after they leave the garden. A certain character losing his hand in Game of Thrones.
(TheCascador) |
Signed by Leonardo DaVinci |
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