In fact recent scholarship has shown that the drawing is also testament to Leonardo’s reflections on the works of Leon Battista Alberti and Euclidean theory. Leonardo’s work was long thought to be a straightforward application of the theories of the Roman architect Vitruvius, who, in his De architectura, or The Ten Books on Architecture, imagined buildings as a transposition of correspondences between the various parts of a perfectly structured body. The circle and square, for example, have been used as symbolic representations of the sky and earth since the Middle Ages, and the presence of a human figure within them is an explicit illustration of the correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm. Many are the meanings and possible readings inherent in the drawing. It is an extraordinary study of human proportions with an ideal figure in two different positions – with legs spread wide and with legs brought together – inscribed within the absolute forms of a circle and a square. The sheet can in all probability be dated to the years Leonardo spent in Milan, even though its destination remains in part mysterious. The volume also contains drawings now in Venice, first and foremost amongst which the study of proportions generally known as Vitruvian Man. In 1784, when the sheets were still the property of the De Pagave family, they were engraved and published by Carlo Giuseppe Gerli. From Bossi’s diary we learn that in 1807 he managed to acquire a large set of Leonardo drawings belonging to the De Pagave family who, in turn, had obtained the drawings from the countess Anna Luisa Monti, heir to cardinal Cesare Monti (1594–1650). Like all of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings now held at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, this extraordinary example is from the collection of illustrations belonging to Giuseppe Bossi from Milan. STUDY OF THE PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY, KNOWN AS THE VITRUVIAN MAN For this reason, drawings and prints are not always on permanent display. To avoid deterioration, the drawing must be conserved in a light- and temperature-controlled environment. ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION AND EVALUATION.GRANTS, CONTRIBUTIONS, SUBSIDIES, ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES.Organi di indirizzo politico-amministrativo.LE GALLERIE SI RACCONTANO | INCONTRI GUIDATI.CONSERVATION AND DIAGNOSTICS LABORATORIES.Progetto Rialto | Conferenze online 2020 - 2021.LUNAM | L'UNIVERSITÀ AL MUSEO | conferenze online 2021-2022.Il Seicento e il Settecento alle Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia | Nuovi Studi.Il "Ritratto di giovane" di Giorgione dal Museo di Belle Arti di Budapest.LE GALLERIE DA ASCOLTARE! | LA NUOVA VIDEOGUIDA.APERTURE SERALI | MOSTRA ANISH KAPOOR | ESTATE 2022.NEW REGULATIONS FOR VISITING THE MUSEUM.
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