Bear’s Heart at Fort Marion (via Smithsonian Institution) (click to enlarge) Bear’s Heart, unlike other ledger artists who used discarded accounting ledgers, had his own drawing book, in which he ...

Leonardo da Vinci was sketching the human body long before modern medicine even existed. One of his more curious drawings focused on the inside of the human heart, something most people barely ...

The 13th-century French manuscript "Romance of the Pear" contains an early depiction of the heart as a symbol of love. Allegorical image from the Roman de la poire. Image courtesy of Bibliothèque ...