There is evidence that Leonardo used the Italian version of Mondino's Anatomy as a dissecting manual and he explained the blood supply of the stomach, liver, spleen, and intestines. The chapter also describes Leonardo's different outlook on the problems of anatomy at these two different dates. Leonardo set out in detail plans for his books on anatomy on two occasions, one in 1489, and the other about 20 years later, in 1509.

principles underlying all the living movements from birth to death of the human body. Leonardo's many discussions about demonstrating human anatomy and physiology center around two main points: (1) how to illustrate the parts of human machine like other machines so that their mode of action is clear to those who are looking at his drawings and (2) how to demonstrate the mechanical.

This chapter outlines details of Leonardo's anatomical approach to the mechanism of the human body. Based on microscopic view, this paper would discuss how to simplify one piece of muscle, hoping to give some enlightenment to people who are engaged with teaching or learning of human anatomy for artists and help them get a better understanding. Though both of these two methods are convenient and practical for people to understand the overall shape of human body, they seldom involve the performance study of certain piece of muscle. In the terms of research and teaching activities in human anatomy for artists, people have concluded two practice methods, 'matchstick man' simplification method and 'volume simplification' method. In fact, many contents are about medical anatomy, which is of little practical use and would not be our focus. This will make the body more complicated so that people do not know how to begin the work and give people a feeling that there are lots of contents we need to acquire. INTRODUCTI ON In the teaching activities of human anatomy for artists, many people would spend lots of time studying one piece of muscle on, such as, its structure, start-stop position, function or memorizing its name. Keywords-simplicity the teaching of human anatomy for artists symbol shape I.

It will help to find the rule of nature, which I hope could help researchers and students studying the teaching of human anatomy for artists. The simplicity in the teaching of human anatomy for artists is proposed in this paper, and the simplicity is classified into three categories, including alphabet, basic. After the brief introduction of 'Simplicity' proposed by Gombrich and Arnheim, this paper makes an overall thinking and summaries on the methods of simplifying body parts in the teaching activities of human anatomy for artists.

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