Leonardo on the Human Body

by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Donald O'Malley, J.B. Saunders

Book Overview

""It is a miracle that any one man should have observed, read, and written down so much in a single lifetime."" - Kenneth ClarkPainter, sculptor, musician, scientist, architect, engineer, inventor . .... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486244830
• ISBN13: 9780486244839
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.2" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

the man is a genius!!

This book is so good I got a copy for my doctor as well!! he loves it!! Paul

Leonardo's Masterpiece

Leonardo Da Vinci's anatomical drawings, due to his extreme curiosity, became one of his most profound works to date. Published by Dover from the original text 1952. The book is set up in 2 columns and broken up into headers of different anatomical structures; either of bones, muscles, ventricles of the heart or brains. The chapters are broken into systems: nervous, cardiovascular, myological, osteological, respitory, alimentary and others. Within the text there are italicized words. These are the words written on the drawing itself, in Leonardo's usual backward writing style. Some of you might be curious, beyond the drawings themselves to read what Leonardo thought at the time. And from there is the authors commentary. For those interested in anatomy, drawing, painting or anything in the art field, this book is highly reccoemended, for it has limitless reference value. I continually look at it for my drawings. One will also notice that many of the "models" are of the same body or person. This is because Leonardo asked a friend on his deathbed if he could cut him up, dissect him and then draw him. The friend, of course, consented to this, and so we have Leonardo's masterpiece. Highly reccomended! Also reccomended is his Notebooks, also printed by Dover.