Leonardo as he looked

Leonardo da Vinci as physiologist.

It is of course in the art (or as Leonardo would have called it, the ' science') of representing the parts of the human body that Leonardo stands pre-eminent, but beyond this task of anatomical illustration Leonardo always searched into the problems of function which lay inherent in the accurate representation of each ' instrument of the body.' At the outset he realized that no intelligent disc...

To be looked at as though air: civil attention matters.

Empowering looked after children

Children’s rights include the right to participation in decisions made about them. For looked after children, this right is enshrined in the Children Act, 1989. This article reports the results of a study of children’s views about their experience of being looked after and the degree of power they felt they had to influence decision making. Their main areas of criticism were frequent changes of...

Looked after children

Introduction There were 27 quality studies on looked after children as determined by the project categorisation. Studies included children who were placed with non-related foster parents as well as those in kinship care; these are currently the placements of choice in Anglophone jurisdictions (Ainsworth and Thoburn 2014). Surveys have compared children’s material resources in different forms of...

The Leonardo Anatomical Drawings

On July 22nd 1987 a small party of members of the Society visited Windsor Castle by appointment to see a selection of the anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. There are several hundred of these in folios in the Royal Collection and these are all listed in Volume 3 of 'The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci' by Sir Kenneth Clark. Before going we were asked to select 20 drawings from the list and...