[https://frieze.com/article/claire-louise-bennett-takes-scalpel-20th-century-iconoclast?language=de](https://frieze.com/article/claire-louise-bennett-takes-scalpel-20th-century-iconoclast?language=de)
The diagrammatic images of this panel depict ancient ideas about the relationship between the human body and the universe. They typically position the human figure at the centre of the cosmos, reflecting the belief, which prevailed from antiquity through the Renaissance, that the body is a microcosm of the universe. This notion had various iterations: the Zodiac (or Planetary) Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (c.1490) and Hildegard von Bingen’s Universal Man (c.1152), which predates Da Vinci’s drawing by about 300 years. Proportion and equilibrium were key aspects of the correspondence between the visceral and the celestial.