This post explains the image known as: The Vitruvian man.
The Vitrucian man
Relates to the iconography of the square and circle. Which, is since ancient times based on the square and compass known to freemasons. This was also used in China, Fuxi and Nuwa, who ultimately are the sun and the moon, a male for the square and a female for the circle, One figure touches the square the other figure touches the circle.. Leonardo Davinci was most likely aware of this duality and ancient iconography of the creation of man stories, but also recognized in his age that the female was “taken” from the creation process, into a single male god, with heresy death penalty to challenge the church.
Even though in ancient history it was evident it was allways a personified pair of male and female.
His image, what is currently known as the “Vitruvian man”, is a “modern version of the below” Fuxi and Nuwa image, cleverly incorporating the square and the circle. Could it be cleverly hiding the women behind the man? Or was the symbolism aimed at “the sun and the moon creating man”.
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Even Michelangelo in painting his famous creation of Adam painted a female next to god, which has been disputed as an angel. He also “hid the women”. This stems from the ancient creation myths the author highlighted in the blog article that explains the creation humans from clay https://stijnvandenhoven.com/index.php/2024/05/09/the-creation-of-humans-from-clay/
Both Michelangelo and Leonardo knew that there was a female figure involved in the creation of man, but cleverly hid it. Creation is an effort of male and female, never of man alone. The ultimate iconography originates in the celestial bodies and the personification of the sun and the moon, the principals of night and day and the two halves division of the zodiac circle that embodied the same split between moon characters and sun characters in mythology.
This research was first published by Stijn van den Hoven on 22 april 2026 on his blog at www.stijnvandenhoven.com and on his academia.edu profile.