Quaderni di anatomia.

Leonardo DA VINCI (Author)

The Royal Collection. Windsor Castle.

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Leonardo da Vinci.
35 x 50 cm.
359
718
Italian
Hand made. Gold engraved leather on wooden board.
Anatomy.
Book and wood dust jacket.
Specialty Paper "Dali" of Poliedra house. Editing system "La Chiave di lettura" (The key to reading): References numbered on transparent paper, which coincides with the major points of the original letters and drawings by Leonardo, allow to study their work and comment those references in notes to share. 1100 drawings.

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The anatomical tables are saved in the Royal Library of Windsor. It is the most important collection of human body drawings, which Leonardo created between 1485 and 1515.

They were drown with a red and black pencil and  they document Leonardo’s study, which was made directly on the human body dissecting more than thirty cadavers.

The drawings had lost their form because of the rubbing of the codex pages. In 1994, the Windsor papers were isolated and placed in two Perspex sheets to give a right protection and a complete vision without  damaging the surface. Since 1690 this codex belongs to the English Royal Family and it has 234 papers (cm. 48x35). After Leone Pompeo’s death, his heirs sold it in an antiquarian market of Madrid, in Spain, where the sculptor brought all Leonardo’s codices to his disposal. In 1630, the collector Thomas Howard Count of Arundel belonged it but because of the civil war or some events or his initiative he left the Royal House.

IBIC Rating:

AC History of art / art & design styles
ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
ACND Renaissance art
AFF Drawing & drawings
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
HBJD European history
HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
MBX History of medicine
MFC Anatomy
PDX History of science
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

1D Europe
1DBK United Kingdom, Great Britain
1DST Italy
2ADT Italian
3H c 1000 CE to c 1500
3JB c 1500 to c 1600