Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy
Subtitle: Images from a Scientific Revolution
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780300179576
Subjects: Art, italian; Figurative art; Anatomy, artistic; Human anatomy; Renaissance, italy
Description: 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.