Title: Art and anatomy in Renaissance Italy : images from a scientific revolution /
Authors: Laurenza, Domenico
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; distributed by Yale University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: History, Medieval; History, 16th Century; Human Body; Anatomy, Artistic; History, 16th Century.; Medicine in the Arts; Anatomy, Artistic history; Art, Renaissance Italy; Anatomy, Artistic History; Medicine and art Italy History; Human figure in art; Italy
Abstract: Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy examines this crossroads between art and science, showing how the attempt to depict bone structure, musculature, and our inner workings -- both in drawings and in three dimensions -- constituted an important step forward in how the body was represented in art. While already remarkable at the time of their original publication, the anatomical drawings by 16th-century masters have even foreshadowed developments in anatomic studies in modern times.