Renaissance Blog - ‘Vitruvian Man’ (c.1490) by Leonardo Da Vinci


 Renaissance Blog  - ‘Vitruvian Man’ (c.1490) by Leonardo Da Vinci

    For this blog, I focused on the ‘Vitruvian Man’ by Leonardo Da Vinci. I chose this piece of artwork for a couple of reasons. For one, I have seen this particular drawing in multiple environments in my lifetime, even though I have never seen the original at the Gallerie dell’Accademia Museum in Venice, Italy. Because I knew nothing about the significance of this drawing, it never invoked any emotions about its details or purpose. However, my curiosity about its backstory continuously grew each time I saw it. Now that I have learned more about the significance behind this drawing, I wanted to reflect on it in my blog post so I can see the emotion and information it brought to me that I didn’t have before this class.

    The period of when the ‘Vitruvian Man’ was created took place during the Italian Renaissance (c. 1490). Though we are still unsure where this drawing was created, there is a theory that it could of possibly been drawn during the years Da Vinci spent in Milan (Study of the proportions of the human body, known as the vitruvian man). The ‘Vitruvian Man’ was a representation of how significant Humanism and Individualism were during the Italian Renaissance.

    During the Italian Renaissance, there were quite a few influences that shaped the artwork during the period, such as Religion, the Greek and Roman culture, money, war, and more. However, this specific piece of artwork demonstrated the importance of shaping one’s self and future by the way one lives their life (Individualism). In my opinion, the drawing does a great job of depicting this statement that “Man is the measure of all things” (Italian Renaissance Art – Humanism), by literally drawing a man and using him as a measurement for the geometric shapes around him, a possible representation of the Universe. After all the sky and earth have been represented by circles and squares since the Middle Ages (Italian Renaissance Art – Humanism). This drawing’s idea that the human and its experiences is the center of the universe (Humanism) and not Religions, was one of the many factors that together formed the Italian Renaissance era.

 

                                           LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)

                                                   'Vitruvian Man' (c.1490)

 


Works Cited

“Italian Renaissance Art - Humanism.” Arty Factory, www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/italian-renaissance/italian-renaissance-art-humanism.html. Accessed 12 Oct. 2024.

 

“Study of the Proportions of the Human Body, Known as the Vitruvian Man.” Gallerie Dell’Accademia Di Venezia, www.gallerieaccademia.it/en/study-proportions-human-body-known-vitruvian-man.

 

 


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