The
fath
er of anatomic art. The architect, scientist, engineer, inventor, poet,
sculptor and painter, Leonardo da Vinci first became
interested in anatomic art when he was asked by a Veronese
anatomist named Marc Antonia Della Torre to do the
illustrations for a text of anatomy. Della Torre
was to do the dissecting and Leonardo the drawings. Della Torre died
unexpectedly and Leonardo assumed both tasks. He dissected and drew more than 10
human bodies in the cathedral cellar of the mortuary of Santa Spirito under the
secrecy of candlelight, necessitated by the Church's belief in the sanctity of
the human body and a papal decree that forbade human dissection. Leonardo
recognized that a scientific knowledge of human anatomy could only be gained by
dissecting the human body. This was in striking contrast to the pronouncements of Galen and other
anatomists. Da Vinci injected the blood vessels and
cerebral ventricles with wax for preservation, an anatomical
technique still used today. His drawings of the human
anatomy have long been considered as unrivaled.
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