Leonardo da Vinci, anatomist

Resource Information

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Label

Leonardo da Vinci, anatomist

Statement of responsibility

Martin Clayton and Ron Philo

Creator

• Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519

Contributor

• Philo, Ronald
• Queen's Gallery (London, England)
• Royal Collection (Great Britain)
• Clayton, Martin, 1967-

Subject

• Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Exhibitions
• Anatomy, Artistic -- Exhibitions

Genre

• Exhibitions

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

709.945

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NC257.L4

LC item number

A4 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs