We’ve compiled a list of 20 unique and engaging drawing ideas that will not only help you break out of a creative rut but ...

Architecture, engineering, anatomy and botany all involved drawing, and the topics he studied would ultimate help him in producing more accurate art. Many of Da Vinci’s famous paintings are ...

ABOVE: LAURIE O’KEEFE . I n the 16th century, when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy, curious onlookers would gather in anatomical theaters to catch of a glimpse of public ...

Through observation and knowledge of the muscular-skeletal system and its functional kinetics, students are encouraged to express the human form in graphic language. The structural study of the human ...

Microanatomy, the study of anatomy on a microscopic level, is also an area that would have been out of reach for Leonardo. But the Florentine artist anticipated advances that would come only in ...

Five years since experts finally agreed it's a Michelangelo, the sketch is at last up for grabs. Michelangelo, Study of Jupiter (ca. 1490). Courtesy of Dickinson. The British Museum’s Nicholas ...

“Anatomy studies people,” says Suter. “In studying people, you want to ensure that you are representative of all of those groups.” Suter organized two figure-drawing workshops in the cadaver lab for ...

But he soon threw himself into the study of anatomy. Here, an illustration of the cardiovascular system and major organs of a woman, drawn circa 1509-1510. Nude Man ...

Leonardo da Vinci dissected some 30 cadavers in his lifetime, leaving behind a trove of beautiful—and accurate—anatomical drawings. Leonardo da Vinci's extensive studies of human anatomy were ...

Anatomical study of the arm, (c. 1510) There was a reason for this type of artistic study of the dissected form: those studying medicine and anatomy needed to work from dissected cadavers in order ...

The text was mostly descriptive in nature, like that of Galen, lacking drawings to illustrate anatomy. Subsequent texts on the subject during the 14th and early 15th centuries did contain drawings ...