Leonardo Da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

by Martin Clayton

Book Overview

Leonardo da Vinci was renowned not only for the artistic mastery of his paintings but also for his insatiable curiosity. This book looks at his fascination with human anatomy and his anatomical drawings - which reveal him to be a gifted observer of the human body.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821219162
• ISBN13: 9780821219164
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up

Customer Reviews

A book to be contemplated

Da Vinci's anatomical drawing is not simply scientific record. It is a great man's comtemplation on humanity through the very basics of physical form. To back up this kind of inquiry, you need a god to in your soul or you have to be the god youself. Without this spiritual aspect, scientific research would turn into something crudely utilitarian or cruelly inhumane as we all have noticed in so many cases in the modern world. Da Vince is not some mad scientist who messed up with corpses secretly as in a Frenkenstein movie. But do we ever noticed their difference in this country, the supposed most advance country in technology and science? This book would make you think.