Art Weekly ) | | Leonardo's womb, gold postboxes and crazy golf – the week in art Da Vinci's anatomy drawings make the must-see show of the year. Plus, guerrilla gold postbox painters and battling Hitler at crazy golf in Blackpool – all in your weekly art dispatch -
   Detail from studies of the foetus in the womb, c.1510-13, from Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist. Photograph: The Royal Collection These are the greatest drawings in the world and this is the most important exhibition of the year, so try to see it. They include Leonardo da Vinci's moving depiction of a foetus in the womb, among many awe-inspiring studies of the human interior . Leonardo's apparently scientifically rigorous study of the womb contains a bizarre mistake: it is modelled on a cow's womb. This is not just because at the time he made this drawing Leonardo had no access to human dissection; it is also because he believed so strongly that human anatomy must be similar to that of other animals. He recognised, like a true scientist, that we too are animals – an outrageous notion in the early 1500s. Leonardo did get to do a series of brilliant dissections of people who had died at a hospital in Florence. Today, that hospital – Santa Maria Nuova – is still a busy city infirmary. You can go and watch ambulances arriving and ponder the mystery of human life, so fragile and beautiful, that Leonardo captures in these drawings.
• The Queen's Gallery, London SW1A 1AA until 7 October Other exhibitions this weekPicasso's Vollard Suite
These sensuous prints burst with life and imagination and are among Picasso's greatest works.
• British Museum, London WC1 until 2 September Adventureland Golf
Jake and Dinos Chapman, David Shrigley and others reinvent the seaside pastime of crazy golf.
• Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool until 6 October Olympic and Paralympic Posters
There are some fine posters here by , Chris Ofili and others.
• Tate Britain, London SW1 until 23 September Simon Patterson
Last chance for a memorable exploration of the strangeness of statues.
• Haunch of Venison, London W1 until 31 August Masterpiece of the week  Photograph: The National Gallery, London Unknown artist, A Dead Soldier
This eerie painting of a man dead, his body lit by an oil lamp, has the realism of a Caravaggio but is not by him. No one knows who painted this disconcertingly modern work of art. In the 19th century, it fascinated Edouard Manet, who was inspired by it to paint a picture of a dead toreador . As Manet recognised, this is a raw, blunt and unredemptive portrayal of the cold fact of death. Not only is the artist anonymous: so is the unknown soldier whose passing is remembered here forever.
• National Gallery, London WC2 Image of the week  Jake and Dinos Chapmans' crazy golf artwork at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool. The Adolf Hitler statue raises its arm when the ball goes through it. Photograph: Grundy Art Gallery/EPA What we learned this weekHow John Minihan celebrated snapping Samuel Beckett That psychics have taken over the live art space at London's Tate Tanks What your timeline of top artworks looks like That gold postboxes were the surprise illegal street art of the Olympics What upcoming photography shows you should put straight in the diary And finally...There's still time to share your art about sport now. Reflect on the Olympics, or look forward to the Paralympics Post your personal images of London on the Guardian Art and Design Flickr Check out our Tumblr And our Twitter | | | | | |
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