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title: Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/da-vincis-vitruvian-man/
date: 2015-03-03
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# Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man

What’s so special about Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square — symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle explains the geometric, religious and philosophical significance of this deceptively simple drawing.