TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Leonardo da Vinci: Under the Skin</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 513 LP - 513 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X705905 VL - 69 IS - 687 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2019/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/687/513.abstract N2 - Michael and Stephen Farthing Royal Academy of Arts, 2019, HB, 96pp, £14.95, 978-1912520091In his intriguing prologue to this beautiful and desirable book, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, remarks that Renaissance theorists valued drawing as the thinking part of art. In some of the lovely drawings reproduced, and elegantly critiqued by a Professor of Drawing and Professor of Medicine, included in it you can almost hear Leonardo thinking.As an anatomist and chronicler of the structure of the human body, he is peerless — ‘impeccable’ barely does justice to his depiction of The Superficial Anatomy of the Shoulder and Neck or The Vertebral Column — a first in medical history, which has not been improved on significantly since — but the deeper he gets, under the skin, the less sure his touch, the … ER -