Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Renaissance artist

  • The curious tale of Leonardo Da Vinci and the spherical uterus

    John MassieParkville, Victoria, Australia Leonardo Da Vinci had one of the greatest minds in history. Accomplished in so many fields of both the arts and science, he challenged contemporary thinking, and was one of the early Renaissance artists to use dissection of corpses in order to understand the human form. His anatomical drawings reveal a…