Jorge Calvé

Pablo Lorente

Leonardo was a virtuoso from the ItalianRenassaince. Da Vinci studied almost everyfield of the knowledge.

He lived from 1452 to 1519. He

was born in Tuscany

He became a master of topographic

anatomy, drawing many muscles, tendons and

other visible anatomical features.

Before

Leonardo, anatomy’s

knowledge was very

scarce.

By Leonardo’s time

there were few

advances, and they

were based on animal

dissections

This is a picture of Leonardo’s

anatomy

Leonardo made over 200 pages of drawings and

many pages of notes compiled in a treatise on

anatomy. Then these papers were left to his

heir, Francesco Melzi, and he published them.

How did Leonardo expand

knowledge of anatomy?

Leonardo drew a lot of paintings thanks to the

dissections of bodies.

Leonardo also studied the mechanical functions of

the skeleton and the muscular forces that are

applied to it, so he knew how the body worked.

Anatomical comparison

Anatomical comparison