other vitruvian men

fra giovanni giocondo

Fra Giovanni Giocondo was an Italian architect and scholar who would eventually take over Bramante’s post as a superintendent to the building of St. Peter’s in Rome. In his work as as a scholar, he provided the first printed and illustrated edition of De Architectura in 1511. He used the following two images to capture the idea of the Vitruvian man in his edition.


Source: Scanned from Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower

cesare cesariano

In 1521, Cesare Cesariano translated De Architectura into Italian, and also added commentary and illustrations. The following two images try to convey the idea of the Vitruvian man in Cesariano’s edition.


Source: Scanned from Vitruvius Pollio's De Architectura translated and with commentary by Cesariano, facsimilie reproduction 1968.

However, the attempt to show the proportions of man fails, as the arms are too long for the rest of the body.

francesco giorgi

Done in 1525. This image was used in another edition of De Architectura.

Source: Scanned from Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism by Rudolf Wittkower

taccola

Mariano di lacopo, also known as Taccola, was an engineer-author in the Sienese renaissance who kept notebooks of drawings and sketches like those of Leonardo. In his notebooks, we come across his version of the Vitruvian man:

Source: Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy

francesco di giorgio

A lesser-known but equally illustrative contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, Francesco di Giorgio, sketched his version of the Vitruvian man in his notebooks as well:

Source: Scanned from Trattato di architettura di Francesco di Giorgio Martini by Francesco di Giorgio

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