Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519)

Leonardo's biography:

http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html

He was fascinated by the structure of the human body,Leonardo originally pursed the study of anatomy for his training as an artist.Before long,his interest in the human from flourished into an independent area of research.

Although his early studies deal with skeleton and muscle structure,Leonardo managed to combine both anatomical and physical functions in his research.His studies soon developed into the function of internal organs,especially the brain,heart and lungs.

I consider Leonardo Da Vinci as a genius in many fields.He used mysterious,complex and beautiful human body as an object for scientific enquiry and also made it as a subject for his painting.He was too early for his time,He lived at a time when only simple magnifying lenses could offer any enlargement and the rich microscope world of the body was unimaginable to him.

"It is a miracle that any one man should have observed,read and written down so much in a single lifetime" Art historian and Da Vinci biographer Kenneth Clark

He was a perfectionist in his art work. He was a first artist who used scientific methods in his investigation of human body,he was able to create remarkably accurate depictions of the "ideal" figure.

Leonardo has inspired so many artists and scientists such as Lennart Nillson who is regarded as a greatest scientific photographer in the world.

Nilsson.L.(2006).Life.New York:Jonathan Cape.