The Vitruvian Man hides an algorithm

2019-12-02T19:14:09.402Z

Thirty years of reflection, seven years of research to understand that "The Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo is the image of the secret algorithm that the artists used from the 4th to the 18th century to "certify" their works as inspired by the Divine Proportion. For five centuries the drawing would have concealed a deception: it would have been designed to give an encrypted form to the arithmetic and geometric formula that the shops used and passed between them, in compliance with the parameters imposed by the Church. This is the research of Roberto Concas, an art historian who was already director of the National Museums of Cagliari. His work, anticipated exclusively at Ansa, will be the subject of two volumes published by Giunti - the first in January - and a major exhibition that will take place in Cagliari in May 2020 organized by the State Museum of Sardinia, all with the title ' 'The deception of the Vitruvian Man. The algorithm of the divine proportion ''.