More than 500 years ago Leonardo da Vinci produced a body of astonishing anatomical drawings, heavily annotated with his own methodical observations. Remarkably precise, nuanced and delicate, yet scientifically searching, these drawings remain fundamental to our understanding of the artist and his uninhibited search for knowledge. These images—depicting the bones of the foot, the layers of the scalp and cerebral ventricles, and the fetus in the womb—are reproduced from “Leonardo da Vinci: Under the Skin,” a study of Leonardo’s anatomical drawings by artist Stephen Farthing and his brother, scientist Michael Farthing, published by Royal Academy of Arts on the five-hundredth anniversary of the artist's death. @royalacademyarts #leonardodavinci #undertheskin #anatomicaldrawing #renaissancedrawing #renaissanceart #humananatomy #renaissancescience @farthingstephen https://www.instagram.com/p/Buo3K-unp1b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nfw1c3q2jej2