Antiquity/Ancient Greece
This well known drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, about 1500, relates to Vitruv, in the first
century b.c., reports the classical ideal of beauty as derived (AB cut at C, so that CB:AC = AC:AB; about 8:13)
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3. Ideal Proportions Leonardo, ˜1500,
after Vitruv, 1st C.
b.c.; Venice
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... in the same way as this beautiful ideal image of a man's body, the so called These personified ideals of classical beauty have influenced art throughout
5. Warrior of Riace Bronce, South Italy |