According to Count Galeazzo Arconati, who gave other Leonardo manuscripts to the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, the drawings concerning nature, anatomy, and color, have been “in the hands of the King of England before 1640.” The collection has been recorded as being in the possession of Queen Mary II, in 1690, a year after she and her husband, William III, ascended the throne as joint monarchs. The collection comprises all the known anatomical drawings by Leonardo. Three hundred images of the human body by the great artist, made between about 1485 and 1510–15, are showcased in this magnificent volume. Based on the artist’s own anatomical dissections, they show his evolving understanding of physiology. The drawings demonstrate, as well, Leonardo’s progress from technical mastery of his subject to consummate draftsmanship.
\nThe commentary on this astonishing body of work is by Professor Martin Kemp of Oxford University, a leading international authority of Leonardo da Vinci, who explains the uniqueness of the painter’s stroke and the refined figurative transposition. One of the most renowned Italian Anatomists, Professor Mario Rende of the University of Perugia, analyses the significance of these works from a medical-scientific angle, revealing the insights, the research methodology, and the experimental and analytical approach of the Genius of da Vinci. Moving between art and anatomy, between unsurpassed illustrative display and avant-garde Renaissance scientific research, the work thus provides an in-depth and comprehensive look at an indispensable aspect of the Great Master’s story.<\/p>\n
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Atlas brings together the complete corpus of the artist’s anatomical drawings held at the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the world’s richest collection of the great artist’s work on paper. Text in English and Italian.
Editor’s note
\nAcknowledgements and Thanks
\nPreface with a Very Brief Outline
\nof the History of the Drawings
\nIntroduction
\nAnatomy as Natural Philosophy
\nIn his Own Words
\nInitial Ambitions
\nBody and Soul
\nMapping the Surface
\nEarly Investigations: Life and Death,
\nthe Brain, Nerves, Necks and Muscles
\nThe Foot of a Bear
\nBones and Brains
\nThe Music of Proportion
\nMusclemen
\n“Pen-men”
\nMuscles, Tendons, Ligaments, Bones(and Old Men): the Human Machine
\nRamification and Irrigation
\nThe Brain revised
\nTongue, Lips and Sounds
\nDiaphragm and Respiration, with
\nThoughts about the Nature of “Spirits”
\nUrinogenital Organs and
\nthe “Mysteries of the Womb”
\nThe Heart
\nFurther investigations
\nIndex of drawings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":67626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67625","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-martin-kemp","8":"publisher-scripta-maneant-editori","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n