Editing Vitruvian Man (section)

==Legacy==
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| footer            = (left) Patch of the [[Skylab 3]] mission (erroneously written as 2), showing the ''Vitruvian Man'' in the center; (right) [[NASA]]'s [[Extravehicular Mobility Unit]] ''Vitruvian Spaceman'' patch ([[Space Shuttle]] version, with three stars representing NASA's [[human spaceflight programs]])
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The ''Vitruvian Man'' is often considered an archetypal representative of the [[High Renaissance]], just as Leonardo himself came to represent the archetypal [[Renaissance man]].{{sfn|Holberton|2003|loc=§ para. 13}} It holds a unique distinction in aligning art, mathematics, science, classicism, and naturalism.{{sfn|Marani|2003|p=219}} The art historian [[Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich]], writing for ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and ''Vitruvian Man'' as a {{lang|it|cosmografia del minor mondo}} ('[[cosmography]] of the [[Macrocosm and microcosm|microcosm]]'). He believed the workings of the human body to be an analogy, in microcosm, for the workings of the universe."{{sfn|Heydenreich|2022|loc=§ "Anatomical studies and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci"}}

Kemp calls the drawing "the world's most famous drawing",{{sfn|Kemp|2019|p=85}} while Bambach describes it as "justly ranked among the all-time iconic images of [[Western culture|Western civilization]]".{{sfn|Bambach|2019a|p=224}} Reflecting on its fame, Bambach further stated in 2019 that "the endless recent fetishizing of the image by modern commerce through ubiquitous reproductions (in popular books, advertising, and the [[Italian euro coins|Euro coin]]) has kidnapped it from the realm of Renaissance drawing, making it difficult for the viewer to appreciate it as a work of nuanced, creative expression."{{sfn|Bambach|2019a|p=224}}