HOA_Aw Yong Ting Fong_Vitruvian

The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the famed architect, Vitruvius Pollio. The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper and measures 34.4 cm × 25.5 cm (13.5 in × 10.0 in), depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man. It is stored in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy, and, like most works on paper, is displayed only occasionally.

The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise "De Architectura". Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture. Other artists had attempted to depict this concept, with less success. Leonardo's drawing is traditionally named in honor of the architect.

These proportions are seen in Leonardo's notes in the drawings accompanying text, written in mirror writing. It was made as a study of the proportions of the (male) human body as described in Vitruvius:
    - a palm is the width of four fingers 
    - a foot is the width of four palms (i.e., 12 inches) 
    - a cubit is the width of six palms 
    - a pace is four cubits 
    - a man's height is four cubits (and thus 24 palms) 
    - the length of a man's outspread arms (arm span) is equal to his height 
    - the distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of a man's height 

Leonardo da Vinci, "Burlington House" Holy Family

The proportion that shown in this drawing are neutral.

This drawing also have show me that the feeling of love because is a family hugging each other.

The mother  half rising from St Anne's lap, is taking the Child to draw it from the lamb that sacrificial animal, 

and the mother also hugging the baby, and beside of it also have a children is like touching the leg. 

These figures are life-size, but they are in a small cartoon because all are seated or bent, and each one is place before the other to the left