Dessin danatomie de leonardo da vinci biography

Trunk and leg muscles side view Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Bones and muscles of a leg Windsor, Royal Library 9 Leg muscles Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Leg muscles Windsor, Royal Library 9 Leg muscles with bent knee Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Foot muscles Windsor, Royal Library 9 Internal organs and heart muscle. Female organs and blood vessels Windsor, Royal Library 9 Larynx, trachea and esophagus and leg muscles Windsor, Royal Library 9 Larynx, trachea, esophagus and stomach Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso.

Stomach and intestine Windsor, Royal Library 9 Intestine and stomach Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Liver, stomach, spleen and colon Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen and blood vessels Windsor, Royal Library 9 Heart with blood vessels Windsor, Royal Library 9 and verso. Heart cross section Left ventricle and mitral valve Windsor, Royal Library 9 Heart with blood vessels Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso.

Kidneys, ureters and urinary bladder Windsor, Royal Library 9 Blood vessels. Blood vessels of neck, chest and arm Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Venes of an arm Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Blood supply to the thigh Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Aorta and superior vena cava Windsor, Royal Library 9 Gall bladder and blood vessels of the stomach underneath: Esophagus and stomach Windsor, Royal Library 9 Blood supply to the liver Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso.

Mesentery of the intestine and its blood supply Windsor, Royal Library 9 Nervous system. Facial nerves Windsor, Royal Library 9 Outer layers of brain and scalp Windsor, Royal Library 9 Brain chambers Windsor, Royal Library 9 Optic chiasm and cranial nerves Windsor, Royal Library 9 Visual and olfactory nerves Windsor, Royal Library 9 Nervous system Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso.

Spinal cord Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. Cervical spine with nerve cords Windsor, Royal Library 9 verso. By the s, his study of anatomy, which had originally started as artistic training, had developed into an independent area of research. He became fascinated by what he called the Figura istrumetale dell'omo , or the 'man's instrumental figure.

For about two decades, he continued to do practical work in anatomy and dissections in Milan, and then at hospitals in Rome and Florence. According to his own accounts, he dissection thirty corpses in his lifetime. Leonardo's early anatomical studies focused primarily on the skeleton and the muscles, and he combined his anatomical study with physiological research.

He observed and recorded the static structure of the body, and then proceeded to study the role of individual parts of the body in mechanical and dynamic activity. Finally, he studied and drew the body's internal organs, probing deeply into the brain, heart and lungs, which he considered the 'motors' of the senses and of life. He recorded all of his findings in anatomical drawings, which are among the most significant achievements of Renaissance science, and are based on a connection between natural and abstract representation.

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His drawings vividly illustrate how components of machines, animals and humans are designed to move, and how motion and forces are transferred from one component to another. Strong analogies are formed between mechanical and biological parts, such as the role of ropes and cords, and sinews and tendons. Leonardo was fascinated by the change of form over time, whether in the processes of nature or the gradual disintegration of the human body.

Leonardo also had a lifelong interest in depicting decrepitude and the grotesque in human form. In his work, we see the contrast between robust mechanical forms and ageing bodies. With his designs for various forms of automata — machines that operate alone by following predetermined instructions for movement — some of which witnesses suggest he brought to life, Leonardo moves from the human body, which is subject to weakness and ageing, to the wholly mechanical body.