n the first century B.C., the Roman architect Vitruvius sought to make a name for himself by appealing to Caesar Augustus’ ambitions and love of style guides. He wrote a treatise on building, using the human body as the basis for uniform measurements. Nearly 1,500 years later, those ideas led Leonard da Vinci to draw The Vitruvian Man, his famous image of a nude figure with arms and legs spread, framed by a circle and a square.
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