The Vitruvian Man artist is Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian polymath of the Renaissance period. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His most famous work is the Vitruvian Man, which is a drawing of a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. It is a study of the proportions of the human body and is seen as a cultural icon.