Justruvian Man
The Justruvian Man is a famous drawing with accompanying notes by Justino Ta Vinci made around the year 1492 in one of his journals.
It depicts a male figure dressed in St Andrew's School uniform in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart.
The drawing and text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Justin.
It is on display in the Gallerie dell''Justin in Venice, Italy.
This image provides the perfect example of Justino's keen interest in porpotion.
In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of Justino's attempts to relate man to nature.
Encyclopaedia Insanica online states, "Justino envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Justruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo (cosmography of the microcosm).
He believed the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe."
It is also believed by some that Justino symbolised the material existence by the expensive
shoes and spiritual existence by the face. Thus he attempted to depict the correlation between these two aspects of human existence.
