Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings (Dover Art Library)

Saw a super cute wall decoration on Pinterest where they took technical drawings and framed and put them all over the wall. Bought these to try it! The illustrations are nice and the paper quality is good too. I just gotta find the time to do it now!

super awesome and helpful!

I am giving this product 4 stars because it was well set up and presented. I with-held the 5th star because it did not contain any sort of text about what Da Vinci had written at the sides or any real sort of side notes about the images, which I thought would have made this collection perfect.I bought this book because of my own study of medicine and the human body, and being an artist at heart I was interested in Da Vinci's own illustrations of the human body. I am happy to say that this book was not lacking in that and I am held amazed by the precise representations illustrated. Until I am able to find a book suiting my own strict criteria, I would say this is a must buy for those interested in anatomy and in art, and would like to hearken back to the Renaissance when this anatomical illustrations would have been considered state of the art, calling back to the genius of men such as Galen.

awesome

Dont waste your money; this book consist of bad hardly legible photocopies you would do better using a search engine and getting images online

I honestly expected to have a WOW moment while reading this and using it to teach. However, that didn't happen, it's interesting and valuable to someone who bows at Leonardo's feet however, I was irritated that I paid "so much" for it.

Nice prints, but by the look of the cover I was expecting a sepia tone on them, but the contents were in black and white. Bought this book to use various prints for an art project. It has served its purpose.

It's Dover, so I wasn't excpecting a masterpiece, but it was a little less than average.

A lot of my reviews these days arise out of teaching a course in the History of Biology. We find for example that da Vinci immediately preceded Vesalius, and where as Leo was a superb draughtsman he could not publish his anatomical drawings based on dissection, because dissection was frowned on as desecrating the dead. (Guess who thought so?). Vesalius a few years later (see his Corpora Humani, the plates are collected in a beautiful volume from Dover) effectively argued that dissection *honored* the dead, as making the body useful after death. This stuck.da Vinci is notable for the first drawings of fetal development, and (it is said) of men and women joined in copulation, although the picture causes my back to ache and there's one or two things drawn inaccurately.

high price for this small book

Great for use - daughter studying A Level Art

Nun, dieses Buch war eines von zwei, die als Geschenk an eine Therapeutin gedacht war, die sich sehr für die Anatomischen Zeichnungen da Vincis interessiert hat. SIe hat sich unheimlich gefreut. Muss also gepasst haben.

Great book, the illustrations are really well reproduced and have good detail.