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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...