Photo courtesy Vancouver Art Gallery
Let the ultimate Renaissance man get under your skin in Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man at Vancouver Art Gallery (to May 2). This landmark exhibition shows—for the first time in their entirety—da Vinci’s Anatomical Manuscript A drawings of human muscle and skeletal structure (pictured), on loan from Queen Elizabeth II. In the winter of 1510, da Vinci observed corpse dissections, recording more than 13,000 words, written in his unique mirror-image script, alongside 240 pen-and-ink drawings on 18 sheets of paper; these pages are still widely considered to be the most detailed anatomical drawings in the world.—Kristina Urquhart
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