About this event

  • Date and time Thu 17 Oct 2024 from 10:45am to 12:45pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Senior Fellows Forum

Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical work was the greatest of his scientific investigations?

Join this lecture to learn about Leonardo's pioneering work, his two campaigns of investigation in which he dissected around 30 human corpses (and many animals), and his time working in the monastery hospitals and medical schools of Renaissance Italy. Leonardo recorded his findings in hundreds of exquisite drawings and extensive notes that range across neuropsychology, the reproductive system, the structure of the muscles and bones, the functioning of the heart and much else. He intended to publish this material in an illustrated treatise on anatomy, but at his death his notes remained among a mass of unsorted papers.

Registration, tea and coffee: 10:45am
Welcome and introduction: 11:30am
Lecture: 11:40am
Close of meeting: 12:45pm
Optional lunch: 1:00pm

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Key speakers

Martin Clayton LVO, FSA

Head of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust

Speaker's biography

Martin Clayton studied Natural Sciences and the History of Art at Cambridge. Since graduating in 1990, he has worked in the Print Room at Windsor Castle and is now Head of Prints and Drawings for Royal Collection Trust. He has curated many exhibitions on the Italian old master drawings in the Royal Collection, including shows on Raphael, Michelangelo, Poussin, Canaletto, Parmigianino and many others. The focus of his work has been the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci: he has curated exhibitions on Leonardo's anatomical work (1992, 2010 and 2012-13) and his studies of physiognomy (The Divine and the Grotesque, 2002), and for the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 2019 he organised a series of 14 exhibitions of the artist’s drawings at venues across the UK that were seen by a total of more than 1,350,000 people. He is currently working on a revised full catalogue of all 600 drawings by Leonardo and his circle in Windsor.

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close on Wednesday 16 October 2024 at 1:00am (BST) for the in-person event and Tuesday 17 October for the live stream. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time.

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