Art vs. Scientific Illustration

Anatomy Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-06 The Mona Lisa, 1503-06 Artist: Leonardo da Vinci Alternative Name: Portrait of Lisa Gherardini Currently housed at the Louvre, Paris, France. URL: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en Quote from the Louvre Website: “This portrait was doubtless painted in Florence between 1503 and 1506. It is thought to be of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a Florentine cloth merchant named Francesco del Giocondo - hence the alternative title, La Gioconda. However, Leonardo seems to have taken the completed portrait to France rather than giving it to the person who commissioned it. It was eventually returned to Italy by Leonardo's student and heir Salai. It is not known how the painting came to be in François I's collection.” A skull sectioned, 1489 Currently part of The Royal Collection, England Online exhibition, Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci URL: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/leonardodrawings/section.asp Quote from the Website: “In this drawing (on the reverse of a sheet with another drawing of a sectioned skull), Leonardo studies the position of the facial cavities in relation to the surface features, and in the left margin, in his typical mirror-writing, he discusses the form and number of teeth in the human jaw.” Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, 1503-06 Bisected Skull, Leonardo da Vinci,1489

Astronomy Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Map of the Moon The Starry Night, 1889 Artist: Vincent van Gogh Currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York URL: http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79802 Quote from the website: “Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature.” Map of the Moon Source: NASA URL: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/moonimg_07.html Caption: This map shows the locations of many spacecraft that have landed on the moon. Green triangles represent Apollo missions. Yellow are NASA Surveyor missions, and red are Russian Luna spacecraft. One of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's missions is to search for potential landing sites for future manned missions to the moon. Credit: National Space Science Data Center, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Map of the Moon

Astronomy Bubble Universe, Sally Bensusen, 1993 Artist: Sally Bensusen URL: http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/womenswork/bensusen2.shtml Quote from the website: “Bubble Universe,” colored pencil drawing showing a conceptual depiction of the superstructure of the universe according to one astronomical theory. Location of the AEGIS galaxy survey Hubble mosaic on the sky. Source: Lick Observatory, University of California URL: http://www.astro.ucsc.edu/content/stsci_big_dipper Bubble Universe, Sally Bensusen, 1993 Location of the AEGIS galaxy survey

Oceanography The Great Wave at Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1831-32 The Great Wave at Kanagawa From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29 Artist: Katsushika Hokusai Currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/JP1847 Quote from the website: The turbulent wave seems to tower above the viewer, whereas the tiny stable pyramid of Mount Fuji sits in the distance. The eternal mountain is envisioned in a single moment frozen in time Parts of a Wave Source: Meted, COMET, UCAR URL: http://www.meted.ucar.edu/marine/mod2_wlc_gen/print.htm The Great Wave at Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1831-32 Parts of a wave

Zoology Sketch of bird, John Digby, 1980 Diary with sketch of bird, 1980 Artist: John Digby Currently housed at the University of Delaware Library URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/animals/20th.htm Quote from website: “Digby produced a series of fifty bird collages using paper from nineteenth century books and magazines. Some of these were used as illustrations for the Perishable Press edition of Birdsongs: Eleven New Poems by Toby Olson, published in 1980.” Communities that live on a horseshoe crab, 2002 Artist: Sally Bensusen Digital art showing the communities of animals that live on a horseshoe crab. Published in the June 2002  "Biomechanics" column of Natural History. URL: http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/womenswork/bensusen2.shtml Quote from the website: “Bensusen’s work is a regular feature of many scientific publications. She has been commissioned by the National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Horticulture, Ranger Rick, The Nature Conservancy and more.” Sketch of bird, John Digby, 1980 Communities that live on a horseshoe crab, Sally Bensusen, 2002.