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- adjective architecture Of or pertaining to Vitruvius, an Ancient Roman
architect .
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Vitruvian, which is already familiar with the betting industry through last year's £74.4m acquisition of Inspired Gaming, is buying OpenBet for cash from NDS - the technology supplier to the pay-TV industry owned by News Corporation and Permira funds.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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He kept notebooks full of anatomical drawings such as Vitruvian Man.
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He kept notebooks full of anatomical drawings such as Vitruvian Man.
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He kept notebooks full of anatomical drawings such as Vitruvian Man.
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He kept notebooks full of anatomical drawings such as Vitruvian Man.
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He kept notebooks full of anatomical drawings such as Vitruvian Man.
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He kept notebooks full of anatomical drawings such as Vitruvian Man.
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Catherine Turocy, the artistic director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, was teaching a workshop on historical performance and asking her students to visualize themselves as Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man: Just as in Renaissance theory the proportions of the human body give rise to perfect geometric shapes, the Baroque dancer moved inside an invisible sphere measured by the extension and movement of the limbs.
Stepping Through History Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011
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The Vitruvian Man, according to Ms. Turocy, says to the performer: 'You are perfect as you are.
Stepping Through History Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011
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Unfortunately, we have spent the last century wobbling from one extreme to the other, while at the same time managing to have Vitruvian rigor without Vitruvian decorum, elegance and tradition, and Dinocritean extravagance without its attendant beauty, weirdness and wonder.
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