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Leonardo da Vinci was a genius ahead of his time and a gifted painter - so why the anatomical illustration of the female genitalia he painted so inaccurately? Probably because something else interested him


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In Da Vinci's intimate anatomical illustration an important part is missing.

Identify what it is?

Leonardo da Vinci was a genius ahead of his time, a man with many skills and a gifted painter - so why exactly the anatomical illustration of the female genitalia he painted so inaccurately?

Probably because he was interested in something else around

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28/01/2022

Friday, 28 January 2022, 07:24 Updated: 07:34

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Leonardo da Vinci was a genius - a talented painter, inventor and visionary who was hundreds of years ahead of his time.

He was also an amateur anatomist and showed great interest in the accurate drawing of the human body.

Well ... for the most part, anyway.

The Vagina Museum in the UK (yes, there is such a museum. Real), displays an anatomical drawing of a vagina painted by Da Vinci, and lacks some critical details.



In general, he saw his interest in anatomy as Da Vinci as a kind of hobby and did not consider himself a professional "anatomist".

However, from time to time he did choose to publish and share his anatomical drawings - one of which became very famous and you probably know him - 'The Vitruvian Man', which presents the ideal proportions (for Da Vinci) for the human body.

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Here he actually did not miss anything.

Illustration by Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (Photo: Creative Commons)

But Da Vinci undoubtedly had to spend a little more time in the anatomical registration of the vagina, because like many other men before (and after) he missed some important details like the clitoris and inner lips of the vagina, for example. The reason for the inaccuracy, experts estimate, is that the vagina was not at all the reason for which Da Vinci, his drawing block and model, gathered, but the rectum. The rectum was what really interested him (oh, if only Freud had been around to give here some punch required).



"The focus of the illustration is not the vagina - the rectum is much more interesting to him, more precisely, how the sphincter muscles work. The spiral illustrations around the page represent his hypotheses and theories about the structure of the sphincters," the museum added in an explanation. Therefore, he apparently decided to save himself some time on a detailed illustration of the structure of the vagina that also includes the clitoris and inner lips, and delve deeper into the mode of action of the sphincters in the rectum.



Unfortunately,Even there it is not really accurate.

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Da Vinci assumed it was true that the muscles contract to a pulling motion only, and could not push, but he did not really understand how the sphincter worked.

Instead of an annular muscle, which tightens to close and relaxes to open, he believed that 5 different muscles involved in the process are involved in performing one of the least attractive but most necessary human actions.



Da Vinci also did not really manage to formulate a theory about how the muscles he painted worked together.

"Why an odd number of muscles, and if already an asymmetry - why five, and not three or seven muscles?"

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If you think that Vinci Field may have had an unsuccessful day, been tired or just skipped this specific illustration - this is really not the case.

In fact, he is precise enough to capture in his figure a certain parachute drop of the modalist's pelvic organs by which he illustrated this anatomical drawing.



"The urethral opening has a butterfly shape, and since the woman went through several births she may have suffered from organ prolapse, caused by weakness in the pelvic floor muscles that also hold the bladder in place," the illustration said in a statement from the Royal Collection Foundation.

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