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LEONARDO DA VINCI - Studies of the skull and brain


Weimar Sheet verso, Schloss-Museum, Weimar

The verso of this loose sheet, originally part of the corpus of Leonardo's anatomical drawings, contains a spectacular exploded view of the skull that displays the organs arranged in an orderly fashion inside it. The entire set of drawings is presented as a visual instruction manual for assembling the parts of a complex mechanical device.

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