Salon.com > Leonardo da Vinci http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Da Vinci’s Ghost”: Secrets of the world’s most famous drawing http://www.salon.com/2012/01/30/da_vincis_ghost_secrets_of_the_worlds_most_famous_drawing/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/30/da_vincis_ghost_secrets_of_the_worlds_most_famous_drawing/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12245541 "Man," wrote Leonardo da Vinci in the 1480s, "is the model of the world," and the drawing we take to be the embodiment of that idea is called the Vitruvian Man, a name likely to be as unfamiliar to most people as the image itself is instantly recognizable. The Vitruvian Man, thought to be set down on paper by da Vinci around 1490 (before he accomplished most of his major works), is "the world's most famous drawing," according to Toby Lester's new book, "Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image." The book is an account of "the rich swirl of people, texts, images and ideas that may have prompted Leonardo to draw his picture."

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