Leonardo da Vinci studied the human body very carefully throughout his life. Since the age of thirty he has been working in Milan on building muscles and bones and their connections. Although it was forbidden at the time, he dissected more than 30 corpses for this purpose. These studies helped him paint his paintings. This is the only way to reproduce the human body with its proportions, visible muscles and other anatomical details. At the age of sixty, Leonardo was also interested in the internal organs.
He was the first person to draw a child in the womb.
Leonardo’s most famous copperplate engraving on anatomy is the “Vitruvian Man”.
He developed a particular fascination for the hand. He makes several copperplate engravings with 5 hand positions.
His drawings are indeed fascinating. I can’t wait to see what you do with this prompt.
Fascinating and exciting, really. The mysteries of what lies below has always intrigued the masses and encouraged study.
Leonardo was not the only artist of the era to work with dissections to study the human body; he is perhaps the best known because of his note-taking; he also created a significant group of ‘machine’ drawings ranging. A group in Italy recreacted these machines from his drawings.