Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci in 1452. Da Vinci’s artistic works such as the
‘Mona Lisa’ and the ‘Last Supper’ have made his name synonymous with art. Acknowledged as one of the greatest and most gifted painters that has ever lived, Da Vinci spent the latter half of his life dedicated to anatomical drawings which detailed the inner human anatomy to much preciseness. His anatomical drawings included those of the skull and cerebral ventricles, the heart and blood vessels, lungs, alimentary tract and abdominal viscera, urogenital system and sketches of the human skeleton, muscles and tendons. Da Vinci has been credited as the first person to describe the heart as composing of muscles and comprising four chambers, portray cross sectional anatomy and making the first known clear illustration of a human fetus in utero. He also went beyond just drawing anatomical structures by performing animal experiments so as to correlate structure with function. His scientific drawings of the human body have set him apart from any other artist that has walked the face of earth.