Novel surgical tools demand revision of our anatomical knowledge. Anatomical drawings are extraordinarily useful to describe organs and highlight surgical details, representing an exceptional method ...

An artistic Canadian boffin has shown off his anatomical drawing of Marvel’s fan-favourite character and star of ‘Avengers Assemble’, The Hulk. Drawn in 2002 but recently re-published after the ...

For the first time in almost 250 years the Pennsylvania Hospital in Center City is showing its original collection of medical drawings publicly. But even though they were made for education, the ...

Leonardo da Vinci was many things: artist, architect, engineer, inventor and—on occasion—scientist. But even though he made many detailed studies of the human form, his anatomical drawings languished ...

PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA — Centuries before X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasounds gave doctors a view inside the human body, the best images medical students often had were illustrations drawn by artists ...

During his long journey through Europe and the Levant in 1867, Mark Twain stopped off in Milan. Like many, he was struck by the grandeur of the city’s great cathedral, but it was something else that ...

CARBONDALE — A pilot workshop next month at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will give participants a chance to discover a longstanding Renaissance era tradition of artistic anatomy by studying ...

Over at Scientific American, amazing science artist Glendon Mellow has posted my current favorite picture in the entire universe: An anatomy drawing he did a few years ago of Hulk’s skull, based on ...

A scalpel on skin is a rite of medical school. But this fall, medical students at Duke University’s School of Medicine have the option to press pencil to paper. That’s not to say the hands-on cadaver ...

The drawings in the anatomical atlas are seen as unparalleled in their detail of winding nerves and minute blood vessels, and are still used today in medical education and surgery. But the Pernkopf ...

The largest ever exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the human body will be open to the public for the first time at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Although best known as one of the ...

A Brazilian artist who painted an anatomical chart of imaginary characters appearing in stories such as Spiderman, mermaid, and penguin appearing in Batman with a very realistic touch stuck to ...