For centuries, real dead bodies inspired great artists and science illustrators alike. A new exhibition reveals the dark stories behind these cadavers – and how they were acquired.

After a busy week with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine classes, Brooke Quinton and Yiran Wang found that painting and drawing together were good ways to relax on the weekends.

Leonardo da Vinci approached the world with a fearless ambition to expand his mind. However, as an illegitimate son, he was unable to receive a classical education. Fortunately, Leonardo saw this as ...

Over two hundred books, prints, drawings, and other art objects portraying the human body are on sale today in New York City at Christie's, one of the world's top art auction houses. We're talking ...

OG Abel (Abel Izaguirre), “Love & Hate” (August 19, 2012), graphite on paper in LA Liber Amicorum / Graffiti Black Book (Los Angeles, 2012), Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Gift of Ed and ...

Part I: Anatomical models in artistic training: sculpted, living, and dissected. Anatomy in the drawing room at Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam: between skin and bones, theory and practice / ...

“. . . It is known vaguely, if at all, as an old volume that contains some possibly distressing illustrations of skeletons and muscles.” Thus complains the Metropolitan Museum’s scholarly Curator of ...

There’s a new Morbid Anatomy Museum, and, yes, it’s in Brooklyn, reports the New York Times. The museum, which could have raided some of the borough’s many taxidermy-chic restaurants to fill out its ...

A couple of years back, my neurosurgeon showed me some snaps she'd made on her flip phone of my open forearm during a surgery she had performed on me. She offered me the pictures as evidence that her ...

Half her chest was painted with lively red and blue blood vessels. The other half was painted dark, mottled with black spots indicative of lung disease caused by smoking. The model strutted through ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A new public art installation was unveiled on the North Side on Tuesday. Local artist Mikael Owunna is the mind behind "Anatomy of the Human." It was unveiled in the Pop District ...

The University of Texas Permian Basin College of Health Science and Human Performance has added two recent attractions — the Anatomage Table and the biomechanics lab. The biomechanics lab studies ...