“homo bene figuratus”Well, having discovered in the former section the multiple Golden merits of the Vitruvian "homo ad quadratum" (man into the square), wich was successfully worked out by Leonardo Da Vinci,since ours is a commitment on the Divine Proportion, we will also seek the qualities of the ideal circle, even if this will not appertain to the "homo ad circulum" by Leonardo.![]()
It must be said that it's easy to design any body suiting whatsoever prefixed parameters, even if they are not yet interpreted unanimously;
but what we are inspired to share is the presence of the Golden Section, in this idealized construct of the figure given by Vitruvius, even if this Sacred Ratio was technically unknown at that time. Thanks to the illustrated arcs of rotation, we can resume that even widening the radius of containment [yellow] up to the tips of the fingers raised to full extension of the arms – Y, which seems to be precisely at 60° – the circumference will not be large enough to also wrap the toes extended, as is shown by the layout of the legs evenly rotated up to 60°. |