Tag: Vitruvio Ferrarese

• October 7, 2011

  Leonardo’s Measure – The Genitals of Vitruvian Men

  There seems to have been something of a genital fixation amongst commentators on Vitruvius’  in the 1490s and early 1500s. Vitruvius’ book on architecture was a favourite for many renaissance theorists, and his small passage about human proportion was revisited several times, notably by Leon Battista Alberti in his On Sculpture, by Francesco di Giorgio…