page_title: Taccola
hierarchical_section_title: Taccola
caption_attribution_description: Mariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola, Proporzioni del corpo umano Vitruvian man. Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy
context_page_description: Mariano di Jacopo, called Taccola, was an Italian polymath, administrator, artist and engineer of the early Renaissance. Taccola is known for his technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis, which feature annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices. Taccola's work was widely studied and copied by later Renaissance engineers and artists, among them Francesco di Giorgio, and Leonardo da Vinci.
context_section_description: Mariano di Jacopo (1382 – c. 1453), called Taccola ("the jackdaw"), was an Italian polymath, administrator, artist and engineer of the early Renaissance. Taccola is known for his technological treatises De ingeneis and De machinis, which feature annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices. Taccola's work was widely studied and copied by later Renaissance engineers and artists, among them Francesco di Giorgio, and Leonardo da Vinci.
caption: Taccola "Vitruvian man"
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