Leonardo da Vinci : The Artistic genius and a Grave Robber

We all know about that famous artist who created the world’s most astonishing paintings ever, including the most famous masterpieces “The Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper”.

Leonardo da Vinci was not only known for his masterpieces but also for some of his controversial paintings made by him about more than 500 years ago from now.

It is also believed that Leonardo had also used his paintings to hide some secret messages in them and even those paintings that could be decipherable only through a mirror.

And such a great artist ‘digging up a corpse late night’ could be as surprising as well. Da Vinci as an artist loved to study about the human anatomy in order to improve his ability to capture the human body form in great detail.

One of Leonardo’s paintings shows his curiosity to study the human body’s naked parts, like the bones and muscles in a human arm and also that in our foot.

But at that time, it was a tough job for him to do so due to lack of medical science development in that era. But Leonardo’s never ending curiosity towards human anatomy, led him to be a “Grave robber”. Many historians believe that Leonardo had to get grave robbers to retrieve dead bodies from the graveyards at night, and all this was done very secretly.

Because if they were caught, then the catholic churches could execute them for a highly punishable crime at that time, that is dissecting up the corpses and paying disrespect to the dead and also towards Christianity itself.

Regardless of all the risks of being caught, Leonardo continued with robbing and then dissecting up the corpses. Leonardo also succeeded in opening up a human heart and allocating all its four chambers.

But all this ended when Leonardo was arrested along with his several companions on the allegations of sodomy. And this crime could punish him to death.

But luckily, his case was taken back when none of the witnesses came to the court for the hearings.

Leonardo died in 1519 in Amboise, France; after creating the world famous masterpieces which still surprises many theorists even today.

Despite being a very controversial artist of his time, we can’t disagree on the fact that Leonardo da Vinci directed medical science to a new modern outlook.