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Re: Cover is of Vitruvian Man, not Study of Man!!!
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Originally Posted by mRgUnN
Dear All:
I cannot help myself; I have to vent about one of my pet peeves, poor research.  Poor research and laziness in this article has ruined a potential educational experience for all. A failing made especially egregious since the internet puts an encyclopedia at our finger tips.
The author describes the book's cover in his review as: " The cover of Basic RolePlaying features a variation of Da Vinci's study of man..." This is incorrect, the cover art is an homage to Da Vinci's: Vitruvian Man, from Da Vinci's study in human proportion called the: Canon of Proportions.
To the author I implore; please, in future properly research your citations, the inclusion of a wiki link to the Vitruvian Man would have been a great opportunity to enlighten the ignorant. |
If you really want to be nit-picky the cover isn't an homage to anything by anyone named Da Vinci rather it's an homage to Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. Da Vinci was not the artist's name, it was just where he was from.
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