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I dissected cadavers and drew a foetus in utero
1510 — 1511
Situation
Anatomical study I began under Verrocchio, who demanded it of his students, deepened through hospital dissections and a 1510–1511 collaboration with Marcantonio della Torre of the University of Pavia.
Action
With permission to dissect at Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and later in Milan and Rome, I made more than 240 detailed anatomical drawings and about 13,000 words toward a treatise on anatomy.
Outcome
My anatomy began as knowledge for art and became research and science in its own right, including one of the first scientific drawings of a foetus in utero.
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