Drawing by Rob ten Berge (2x A4 – 1987/1999) about the human brain with nerve system of 12 nerve tracts.

Signed with: “Francesco Mezzer Melzi”. Francesco Melzi/Il Conte (The Count). Italian painter, born in Milan c. 1490, son of a Lombard aristocrat. At the age of 15 Melzi met Leonardo da Vinci, Melzi became his pupil and life companion. In 1513 he accompanied da Vinci to Rome and in 1517 to France. Melzi was a talented painter, he worked closely with and for da Vinci. When da Vinci died in 1519 the handsome young man inherited his manuscripts, instruments, books and drawings. Some of da Vinci's works are attributed to Melzi. Melzi died in Vaprio d' Addo in 1570.