Vitruvian Man || Leonardo and Vitruvius

The Mona Lisa is the greatest painting in the history of art. It is the most important painting painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. He also painted his lost wall at the same time, called the wall of the battle of Anghiari, which is still missing today, like the wall of the battle of Cascina, which was painted by the genius Michelangelo. After the stability of the security situation, he returned to Milan in 1506, but this time he did not draw again, but taught, where he worked with a number of his prominent students. But his stay in Milan did not last long, as he needed to travel to Florence to solve a dispute between his brothers about their father, who died in 1507. His absence from Milan was not long either, as he returned to it after a year, but this time it will be the last. Leonardo remained in Milan until 1513, then moved to Rome, specifically to the Vatican, at the request of his father, Dionysius. In 1515, the French king, Francis I, took control of Milan. Leonardo was invited to attend the meeting between him and his father, where he asked him to design a gift for the king. He allowed him this task by traveling to France in 1516 to work on the gift. Leonardo stayed in the palace of Clonus the Angel, where he spent the last years of his life. He completed the Mona Lisa in it, and it was his last work. In the spring of 1519, in this particular place, Leonardo da Vinci died, and his head was in the hands of King Francis I, where he had become close friends. He said about him after his death, There was no man on earth who had as much knowledge as Leonardo, neither in drawing, nor in sculpting, nor even in architecture, because he was a great philosopher. After his death, Leonardo left an invaluable legacy. Of the artistic paintings, statues, maps, and perhaps the most important thing he left was a huge number of manuscripts, which explain either a scientific theory, or an idea for invention or an engineering solution. But among these manuscripts, there is one manuscript that attracts more attention than others. A manuscript that was for more than half a century a busy job for many in the field of mathematics, architecture, art, and even philosophy. Vitruvian Man, why did this manuscript attract so much attention? What is the secret that makes this painting so important? Why is the position of a man, once inside a circle, and once inside a square, one of the most important discoveries in human history ever? Yes, it was painted in the Renaissance, but its idea didn't start there, but it started 14 centuries before that. Specifically in Rome, in the first century BC, where the man who named this painting after him lived in that era, the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius, who had written a book that still exists to this day, which is the book The Architecture, known as Ten Books on Architecture, in which he expressed many of his architectural ideas, such as that the building, in order to be considered successful, must have three conditions. These conditions are called the Vitruvian Trinity, and Vitruvius also expressed his philosophy about architecture, which is the return to the human race in its buildings. From here, Greece established the well-known Trinity. The Dory, the Ionians, and the Corinthians, are all inspired by the human body. In studying the human race, Vitruvius was able to imagine the perfect man, or the so-called Vitruvian man. From here, Leonardo inspired the idea of his painting. Returning to the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci had written a comment on his painting. Vitruvius, an architect, had put in his works on architecture that the man's measure in nature is distributed throughout the universe.