Vutrivian Man

1 ) What is 'Vutrivian Man' and what is it supposed to represent?

Leonardo studied anatomy by dissecting human corpses and the bodies of animals. He made scientific drawings that clarify not only the appearance of bones, tendons, and other body parts, but also their functions.
Leonardo tried to understand the human body as a mechanism. As his studies progressed, he also tried to understand the forces of life that animated the body. His drawings, for example, extended to investigations of human reproduction and embryology and the circulation of blood. None of these things were understood at the time. His anatomical drawings of a female, which he made about 1508, is his attempt, partly mistaken in detail, to illustrate the body’s circulatory and other systems in a single image.

Like other artists, Leonardo was interested in the proportions of the human body. He drew a famous study of human proportions based on the statement of the Roman architect Vitruvius that the ‘well-shaped man’ fits into the perfect shape of a square and circle.

This drawing by Leonardo da Vinci illustrates the mathematical proportions found in human anatomy. the hexagon framing the Vutrivian Man is more perfectly shown in the Pentagon of Pythagoras, which can be broken into Golden Rectangles.