Which artist drew a perfect circle for a king?

Answer 1

Sorry guys but ALL the leonardo da vinci and Michelangelo answers are 100% WRONG. The actual artist was a man called GIOTTO and his famous drawing is known in Italy as..L'O di Giotto ..the O of Giotto the O being the perfect circle.....

Answer 2

Giotto Perfect Circle

Answer 3

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Which artist drew a perfect circle for a king?

Answer 4

Giotto Circle

Answer 5

Giotto draws a perfect circle for the Pope, told by Vasari:

Pope Benedict sent one of his courtiers into Tuscany to see what sort of a man he was and what his works were like, for the Pope was planning to have some paintings made in S Peter's. This courtier, on his way to see Giotto and to find out what other masters of painting and mosaic there were in Florence, spoke with many masters in Sienna, and then, having received some drawings from them, he came to Florence. And one morning going into the workshop of Giotto, who was at his labours, he showed him the mind of the Pope, and at last asked him to give him a little drawing to send to his Holiness. Giotto, who was a man of courteous manners, immediately took a sheet of paper, and with a pen dipped in red, fixing his arm firmly against his side to make a compass of it, with a turn of his hand he made a circle so perfect that it was a marvel to see it Having done it, he turned smiling to the courtier and said, "Here is the drawing." But he, thinking he was being laughed at, asked, "Am I to have no other drawing than this?" "This is enough and too much," replied Giotto, "send it with the others and see if it will be understood." The messenger, seeing that he could get nothing else, departed ill pleased, not doubting that he had been made a fool of. However, sending the other drawings to the Pope with the names of those who had made them, he sent also Giotto's, relating how he had made the circle without moving his arm and without compasses, which when the Pope and many of his courtiers understood, they saw that Giotto must surpass greatly all the other painters of his time.
More on Giotto: The story comes from Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (allconsuming, amazon.co.uk). Tom Phillips revisited (and remeasured) Giotto in his Fifty attempts to paint a freehand circle, 1974

Answer 6

It was Michelangelo....But it wasn't for a "king."

The story goes that in 1508, Pope Julius II asked Michelangelo for proof of his talent. Michelangelo replied by drawing a perfect circle, free-hand.

Answer 7

It was Michelangelo - he drew it for the Pope in order to proove that he made the Pieta' - the statue was so good that they did not believed that he made it (he was still young). Since the Pope did not get the difficulty of drawing a perfect circle, Michelangelo carved a ribbon on the Madona in Pieta', that stated he made the statue :P

Answer 8

I don't know if this was the case, but I understand that Rafael could draw a perfect circle without any instrument. He used it as a calling card

Answer 9

Leo Divinci

Answer 10

Michelangelo, for a pope