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The cranial nerves, c.1508 (pen and ink over traces of black chalk, with scratching out)

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ROC5892752
Image title
The cranial nerves, c.1508 (pen and ink over traces of black chalk, with scratching out)
Artist
Vinci, Leonardo da (1452-1519) / Italian
Location
Royal Collection Trust
Medium
pen and ink over traces of black chalk, with scratching out
Date
1508 AD (C16th AD)
Dimensions
19x13.6 cms
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Leonardo first began to speculate on the structure of the brain around 1490 but a reprise of his studies around 1508 led to more fruitful results. In the drawings at the top of the sheet, Leonardo is trying to demonstrate the path of vision from the eye to the brain. The drawing at upper centre shows a cross-section of the skull, revealing the eyeballs, optic nerves and the x-shaped optic chiasma formed by the optic nerves before they reach the brain. The olfactory lobes and nerves are also visible. The text at upper right margin reads: ‘e n are nerves, the optic nerves which are situated beneath the nerves called caruncular; but the optic nerves serve visual power and the caruncles the olfactory power

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Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III, 2024 / Bridgeman Images
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16th century / anatomy / art / biology / drawing / Da Vinci Leonardo (1452-1519) (work) / Italy / Europe / mzdrawing / drawing / drawings / study / studies / Sketch / sketches / anatomical / Renaissance / biology / biological / diagram / diagrams / Science / scientific
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