Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing: Nationwide

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Early scientific drawings

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

A two-sided sheet of studies of optics

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

A rocky ravine

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

Recto: Studies of geometry, clouds, plants, engineering, etc. Verso: Studies of geometry

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

A study of the fall of light on a face

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

Recto: The proportions of a standing, kneeling and sitting man. Verso: Notes on human proportion

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

Recto: Studies of human proportion. Verso: The proportions of the leg and foot

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

The proportions of the head, and a standing nude

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

The major organs and vessels

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

Recto: The viscera of a horse. Verso: The hemisection of a man and woman in the act of coition

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

A bear's foot

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

Recto: The skull sectioned. Verso: The cranium

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

Recto: The cranium sectioned. Verso: The skull sectioned

Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)

Recto: The layers of the scalp, and the cerebral ventricles. Verso: Studies of the head

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