Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
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The Last Supper - A Different Approach From a Conventional Artist
In the last supper we can see why leonardo goes, or how he goes, in a different route from a conventional artist. It was known in florence that you needed to know anatomy and figure work to understand gestures and so on. What leonardo does in the last supper is go further and says, i need to know how the brain works. How do they take in this message of betrayal? And there's a drawing of the network of of nerves in the shoulder and upper torso called the brachial plexus. This demonstration is as necessary for good draftsmen as is the declension of latin words for the good grammarian. So he's going
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