Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci was an italian man with many different occupations, such as architecture, painting and sculpting and engineering. Leonardo used architectural techniques to create an ink drawing of a man which was named the Vitruvian man this piece of work shows a man inside a circle inside a square and without looking into the methods behind this piece it is unclear as to why he did this but when you read into it and look at the piece in more depth you realize that it is to do with proportion and measurement, the measured that Da Vinci used are listed below.

• the length of the outspread arms is equal to the height of a man
• from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of the height of a man
• from below the chin to the top of the head is one-eighth of the height of a man
• from above the chest to the top of the head is one-sixth of the height of a man
• from above the chest to the hairline is one-seventh of the height of a man.
• the maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of the height of a man.
• from the breasts to the top of the head is a quarter of the height of a man.
• the distance from the elbow to the tip of the hand is a quarter of the height of a man.
• the distance from the elbow to the armpit is one-eighth of the height of a man.
• the length of the hand is one-tenth of the height of a man.
• the root of the penis is at half the height of a man.
• the foot is one-seventh of the height of a man.
• from below the foot to below the knee is a quarter of the height of a man.
• from below the knee to the root of the penis is a quarter of the height of a man.
• the distances from the below the chin to the nose and the eyebrows and the hairline are equal to the ears and to one-third of the face.