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If getting your gear together and heading out for an evening of life drawing sounds like more trouble than it's worth, consider what Leonardo da Vinci endured for the sake of educating his own singular vision.
Rumors of da Vinci resorting to grave robbery persist to this day, but the truth is that he was allowed to dissect and study corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.
Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the human skull in 1489 borrowed three-dimensional drawing techniques from architecture that had never been seen applied to anatomical studies before. A new technical vocabulary for anatomical drawings was created and da Vinci's sketches in plan, section, elevation, and perspective marked a massive progression in how the body was documented.
Rumors of da Vinci resorting to grave robbery persist to this day, but the truth is that he was allowed to dissect and study corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.
Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the human skull in 1489 borrowed three-dimensional drawing techniques from architecture that had never been seen applied to anatomical studies before. A new technical vocabulary for anatomical drawings was created and da Vinci's sketches in plan, section, elevation, and perspective marked a massive progression in how the body was documented.
Criticized for his undertaking, Leonardo passionately defended the purpose of his anatomical drawings.
"And you who say that it would be better to watch an anatomist at work than to see these drawings, you would be right, if it were possible to observe all the things that are demonstrated in such drawings in a single figure, but in which you, with all your cleverness, will not see nor obtain knowledge of more than some few veins. To obtain a true and perfect knowledge, I have dissected more than ten human bodies, destroying all the other members, and removing the very minutest particles of the flesh by which these veins are surrounded, without causing them to bleed, except for the insensible bleeding of the capillary veins; and as one single body would not last so long, since it was necessary to proceed with several bodies by degrees, until I came to an end and had a complete knowledge; this I repeated twice, to learn the differences."
Sources: designboom.com: anatomical maps - the renaissance artists' search for perfection; Leonardo da Vinci's Influence on Renaissance Anatomy by Kenneth D. Keele; and Leonardo da Vinci Master Draftsman, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"And you who say that it would be better to watch an anatomist at work than to see these drawings, you would be right, if it were possible to observe all the things that are demonstrated in such drawings in a single figure, but in which you, with all your cleverness, will not see nor obtain knowledge of more than some few veins. To obtain a true and perfect knowledge, I have dissected more than ten human bodies, destroying all the other members, and removing the very minutest particles of the flesh by which these veins are surrounded, without causing them to bleed, except for the insensible bleeding of the capillary veins; and as one single body would not last so long, since it was necessary to proceed with several bodies by degrees, until I came to an end and had a complete knowledge; this I repeated twice, to learn the differences."
Sources: designboom.com: anatomical maps - the renaissance artists' search for perfection; Leonardo da Vinci's Influence on Renaissance Anatomy by Kenneth D. Keele; and Leonardo da Vinci Master Draftsman, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Well, Sam -- even with permission, it was not that simple for DaVinci.
Medical students, barber/surgeons, anatomists and doctors who still wished to study the human body in depth in that era still had a large stigma attached to them. As such, it was not easy for people like DaVinci, Vesalius, Malpighi, etc., to get access to -- let alone even look at human anatomy. (Consequently, many of the anatomical errors that Galen, an earlier anatomist made (see [link] ), were still being taught to doctors and anatomists right into the 17th century.) Quite often, they had to content themselves with working from animal models and deducing human forms based on those carcasses.
So, really, DaVinci had to be admired for his courage in doing his studies.
Medical students, barber/surgeons, anatomists and doctors who still wished to study the human body in depth in that era still had a large stigma attached to them. As such, it was not easy for people like DaVinci, Vesalius, Malpighi, etc., to get access to -- let alone even look at human anatomy. (Consequently, many of the anatomical errors that Galen, an earlier anatomist made (see [link] ), were still being taught to doctors and anatomists right into the 17th century.) Quite often, they had to content themselves with working from animal models and deducing human forms based on those carcasses.
So, really, DaVinci had to be admired for his courage in doing his studies.