Conférence : Martin Clayton, «’Describe the jaw of a crocodile’: Leonardo da Vinci’s Animal Anatomies », Londres, Courtauld Institute of Art, 9 mai 2024, 17h30
Leonardo’s anatomical work was the most accomplished of his many scientific studies. Like all his research, it combined traditional beliefs with acute direct observation, including the dissection of up to thirty human cadavers. But Leonardo also studied and dissected animals at many points of his career. His subjects included horses, bears, monkeys, frogs, dogs and oxen – as surrogates for human material, as independent subjects of study, and on occasion to compare explicitly human and...