Leonardo Drawings
Da Vinci's Anatomical Studies
Da Vinci dissected bodies at night, by candlelight, drawing with a piece of cloth covering his mouth and nose, a world away from the comfortable surroundings associated with his portrait paintings.
Leonardo was the first to draw a three-dimensional, depiction of the parts of the dissected body. He was also the first to accurately draw the child in the womb. His aim was to record the birth, life, and death of man in his Treatise on Anatomy, begun in 1489.
The tragedy is that this work was never published, and knowledge that would have certainly advanced the medical science of the time was overlooked for years.

Man's
shoulders and neck 1510.(s)
Pen
and ink Royal Library, Windsor Castle

Arm
and Shoulder, 1515 (s)
Studies
of the muscles of the right arm from the back.

Arm
and shoulder. (s)
The
muscles of the right arm from the front.


Studies
or the arm and the hand. 1510. (s)
Pen
and ink with black chalk.

Leonardo
da Vinci, anatomical drawing.
Child
in the womb. (c. 1510) (w) Royal Library, Windsor Castle.


Foetus. 1510 (s) and.... Man's legs compared with those of a horse. 1506-07 (s)

The foot and lower leg. (s) Pen and ink, Windsor Castle, Royal Collection.

The
back view of a skeleton. (s)
A
study from 1513, pen and ink on blue paper.

Two skulls. 1489 (s) Pen and ink, Royal Windsor Collection.

Anatomy of the eye, section of a man's head. (s) Red chalk, pen, and ink. Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

The abdominal organs. 1508-09 (s) Pen and ink. Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

Study of the heart of an ox, 1513 (s) Pen and ink on blue paper. Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

More studies of the Heart of an Ox (s)

Anatomical Study. (s) Pen and ink and black pencil on paper. Windsor Royal Collection.
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