Who drew the Vitruvian Man?

• A. Giotto
• B. Botticelli
• C. Da Vinci
• D. Titian

Answer: (C)

Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man, a study that blends art and science to illustrate ideal human proportions. Created around 1490, it shows a nude male figure with arms and legs in two positions, inscribed within a circle and a square, embodying how geometry and anatomy can describe the human body. This attribution comes from Leonardo’s notebooks, where he links proportional theory to his drawings and experiments in observation and math.

Giotto, Botticelli, and Titian are all renowned painters from different periods with very different famous works, so they aren’t associated with this geometric-proportional study. The drawing’s fusion of anatomy, proportion, and geometry is quintessentially Leonardo’s approach.