christa.rhet
unfinished thoughts
Leonardo’s knowledge of the human body began during and apprenticeship to Andrea del Verrocchio who required that his students learned anatomy. Since da Vinci was always foremost an artist, he quickly took to drawing many anatomical features, topographic anatomy as it is now called. And since da Vinci was such a master at drawing what he saw, he was soon allowed to start dissecting human corpses at local hospitals. Every dissection, every drawing, every diagram and every analysis of everything he saw went into a notebook. Obviously, these notebooks have become as famous as his paintings and have, in recent years, become the topic for an enormous about of debate and discussion.
