Summary: In this new book published by CB Publishers Paola Salvi traces Leonardo da Vinci anatomical studies based on descriptive and figurative practice “Adunque è necessario figurare e descrivere”, this programmatic synthesis expressed at the beginning of XVI century represents the essence of the Lonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies that because of visual intention stand strongly from the descriptive language of contemporary texts. The specific illustrative need, the direct practice through the dissection, the superiority demo and figurative are in fact the main elements of his work of anatomical visualization. In L'anatomia di Leonardo: “figurare e descrivere” Paola Salvi rereads the work of the Tuscan scholar and relocates it to the base of a new historical framework anatomical anatomy art and iconography. In the book are retrace the research of the scholar who through selective and 'reconstructive' quality of design succeeded in making visible human body in all its parts. The author traces the cognitive and anatomical representation way of the teacher and in the presentation the greatest Leonardo da Vinci expert in the world, Carlo Pedretti, defines the book of, "an enterprise that requires courage and the ability of a rigorous synthesis interpretive skills that once again I can not help but recognize them".

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