Learning from Leonardo

* To respond to the powerful Renaissance ideal of harmonious composite representations, Vesalius decided to add a few composite, synthetic images in an appendix (Epitome) to the Fabrica. However, as Laurenza points out, there too the order of the plates is dissective, from the superficial to the deeper layers. The primary emphasis is always on analysis and dissection (see Laurenza, La ricerca dell’armonia, pp. 91–92).