Leonardo Da Vinci’s Drawings And Sketches

Here are some of Leonardo da Vinci‘s impressive drawings and sketches

Part one of Da Vinci’s ”Studies of the Fetus in the Womb”, ca. 1511, which correctly depicts a human fetus in a breech position inside a dissected uterus.

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings

Views of a Fetus in the Womb

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings

Design for a giant crossbow by Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings

Geometries by Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings

Sketches and notes by Da Vinci describing how by pouring hot wax into an ox’s heart, making a mould of thin glass from the cast, and then pumping water mixed with seeds through it, he deduced the essential role of the vortices in the sinus of Valsalva in the closing of the aortic valve

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings

The Vitruvian Man

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings

Leonardo’s Self Portrait

Leonardo da Vinci's drawings

Two Horsemen Fighting a Dragon

Leonardo da Vinci

Muscles of the Back

Muscles of the Back

Anatomical studies of the shoulder

Anatomical studies of the shoulder

Water Lifting Devices

Water Lifting Devices

Sketch of a Roaring Lion

Sketch of a Roaring Lion

Study for the head of Leda

Study for the head of Leda