Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Leonardo da Vinci art

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist

    Applying himself to the study of anatomy, “Leonardo composed a book annotated in pen and ink in which he did meticulous drawings in red chalk of bodies he had dissected himself. He showed all the bone structure, adding in order all the nerves and covering them with muscles: the first attached to the skeleton, the…