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This is a work in progress. It depicts the superficial layer of muscles, vessels, nerves and glands that lay beneath the integumentary fascia of the human head.
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Superficial cranial anatomy
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Human anatomy artwork
God fresco
Michelangelo painted his portrait of God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Here is a copy of that fresco, used as the basis for a series of anatomical studies as a student art project. This fresco was painted with tempera paint on plasterboard, as were the samples shown below.
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Human nervous system
This is a fresco of the nervous system underlying Michelangelo's painting of God.
Specifically, the focus is on the twelve left-sided cranial nerves, shown in white.
Leveille Illustration specializes in medical and veterinary anatomical renderings.
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Human skeleton and cartilage
Here are the bones and cartilaginous structures extrapolated from Michelangelo's portrait of God.
That's a cherub in the background, known to the Italians as a "putto."
