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Iconography --- anatomy --- tekenboek --- naakte man

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Human anatomy --- proportion --- Dürer, Albrecht

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This exhibition is the largest ever of Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the human body. Leonardo has long been recognised as one of the great artists of the Renaissance, but he was also a pioneer in the understanding of human anatomy. He intended to publish his ground-breaking work in a treatise on anatomy, and had he done so his discoveries would have transformed European knowledge of the subject. But on Leonardo's death in 1519 the drawings remained a mass of undigested material among his private papers and their significance was effectively lost to the world for almost 400 years. Today they are among the Royal Collection's greatest treasures. Exhibition: The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, May-October 2012. Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneer in the study of the human body. Intent on exploring and explaining every aspect of anatomy and physiology, he performed over thirty dissections of human cadavers and many more of animals. He is also among the greatest draftsmen ever to have lived, and his studies of skeletons, musculature, and other visible structures remain to this day largely unsurpassed in their lucidity. In addition to his anatomical drawings, Leonardo meticulously recorded his many findings on the pages of his notebooks with the hope of one day publishing a treatise on anatomy. Among the more than one thousand pages of these notebooks were a number of important discoveries that, had they been published, would have transformed Western understanding of biological sciences. But despite admiration by the likes of Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, and Albrecht Dürerwho made a number of drawings from Leonardos anatomical studiesthe work was never completed and the drawings remained largely unpublished and little known until around 1900. Since the seventeenth century, the Royal Library at Windsor Castle has housed the worlds most significant collection of Leonardos surviving anatomical studies. Generously illustrated throughout, this volume presents ninety of the finest of these astonishing documentsthe largest publication of Leonardos anatomical drawings to dateaccompanied by an informative discussion of their anatomical content and their significance in Leonardos pioneering work.

Human anatomy --- Drawing --- anatomy --- human figures [visual works] --- Royal Collection [London] --- Leonardo da Vinci

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Human anatomy --- Drawing --- drawings [visual works] --- anatomy --- art theory --- lichaam (van de mens)