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Vitruvian Man
c. 1490
Anatomy and geometry meet in one small drawing: the Renaissance ambition to measure humanity's place in the world.
Artist field note
The genius of seeing.
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c. 1490
Anatomy and geometry meet in one small drawing: the Renaissance ambition to measure humanity's place in the world.
The five in one idea
Leonardo believed that looking harder could reveal how the world worked.