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The “tree of veins”
Leonardo da Vinci1491
Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Italy
In his studies of anatomy, Leonardo implemented a strategy of representation based simultaneously on image and word, on “figuration” and on “description”. Some general images reveal a comparison with the illustrations in the Fasciculo de medicina: for example, the “tree of veins” – the circulatory system – (about 1491) and the large table of the female anatomy (approx. 1508).
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- Title: The “tree of veins”
- Creator: Leonardo da Vinci
- Date Created: 1491
- Physical Location: Windsor, Royal Collection Trust, RL 12597
- Subject Keywords: Leonardo da Vinci
- More Information: 8.4_RL12597_albero-di-vene_
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