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{{Short description|Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490}}
{{Infobox Artwork
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| image_file         = Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour.jpg
| title              = Vitruvian Man
| other_language_1   = [[Italian language|Italian]]
| other_title_1      = {{lang|it|L'uomo vitruviano}}
| artist             = [[Leonardo da Vinci]]
| year               = {{circa|1490}}
| type               = Pen, brown ink and watercolor over [[metalpoint]] on paper
| height_metric      = 34.4
| width_metric       = 24.5
| museum             = [[Gallerie dell'Accademia]]
| city               = Venice
}}

The '''''Vitruvian Man''''' ({{langx|it|L'uomo vitruviano}}; {{IPA|it|ˈlwɔːmo vitruˈvjaːno|}}) is a [[drawing]] by the [[Italian Renaissance]] artist and scientist [[Leonardo da Vinci]], dated to {{circa|1490}}. Inspired by the writings of the ancient Roman architect [[Vitruvius]], the drawing depicts a nude man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in both a circle and square. It was described by the art historian [[Carmen C. Bambach]] as "justly ranked among the all-time iconic images of [[Western culture|Western civilization]]".{{sfn|Bambach|2019a|p=224}} Although not the only known drawing of a man inspired by the writings of Vitruvius, the work is a unique synthesis of artistic and scientific ideals and often considered an archetypal representation of the [[High Renaissance]].

The drawing represents Leonardo's conception of ideal [[body proportions]], originally derived from Vitruvius but influenced by his own measurements, the drawings of his contemporaries, and the ''[[De pictura]]'' treatise by [[Leon Battista Alberti]]. Leonardo produced the ''Vitruvian Man'' in Milan and the work was probably passed to his student [[Francesco Melzi]]. It later came into the possession of Venanzio de Pagave, who convinced the engraver Carlo Giuseppe Gerli to include it in a book of Leonardo's drawings, which widely disseminated the previously little-known image. It was later owned by [[Giuseppe Bossi]], who wrote early scholarship on it, and eventually sold to the [[Gallerie dell'Accademia]] of Venice in 1822, where it has remained since. Due to its sensitivity to light, the drawing rarely goes on public display, but it was borrowed by the [[Louvre]] in 2019 for their exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death.