Novel surgical tools demand revision of our anatomical knowledge. Anatomical drawings are extraordinarily useful to describe organs and highlight surgical details, representing an exceptional method ...

A picture is worth a thousand words when trying to explain common illnesses and disorders to patients. Anatomical Line Drawings eliminate the need to manually sketch the body system as related to the ...

For the first time in almost 250 years the Pennsylvania Hospital in Center City is showing its original collection of medical drawings publicly. But even though they were made for education, the ...

Leonardo da Vinci was many things: artist, architect, engineer, inventor and—on occasion—scientist. But even though he made many detailed studies of the human form, his anatomical drawings languished ...

During his long journey through Europe and the Levant in 1867, Mark Twain stopped off in Milan. Like many, he was struck by the grandeur of the city’s great cathedral, but it was something else that ...

The drawings in the anatomical atlas are seen as unparalleled in their detail of winding nerves and minute blood vessels, and are still used today in medical education and surgery. But the Pernkopf ...

CARBONDALE — A pilot workshop next month at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will give participants a chance to discover a longstanding Renaissance era tradition of artistic anatomy by studying ...

A scalpel on skin is a rite of medical school. But this fall, medical students at Duke University’s School of Medicine have the option to press pencil to paper. That’s not to say the hands-on cadaver ...

The largest ever exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the human body will be open to the public for the first time at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Although best known as one of the ...

Over at Scientific American, amazing science artist Glendon Mellow has posted my current favorite picture in the entire universe: An anatomy drawing he did a few years ago of Hulk’s skull, based on ...

A Brazilian artist who painted an anatomical chart of imaginary characters appearing in stories such as Spiderman, mermaid, and penguin appearing in Batman with a very realistic touch stuck to ...