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In Italy in the sixteenth century an unprecedented and widespread interest in anatomy gave rise to a unique collaboration between science and art. Anatomists published illustrated educational treatises, and artists not only helped illustrate those volumes but also studied anatomy for their own inspiration and understanding. Their research was often the impetus for remarkable drawings and sculptures. This issue of the Bulletin presents a succinct history of art and anatomy in Italy during the Renaissance. The author, Domenico Laurenza, is a science historian with a strong interest in art who spent 2006–7 and 2009 at the Metropolitan Museum as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow and is now affiliated with the Museo Galileo's Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence. At the Met, he was able to conduct his research with ideal resources: the Museum's collection is rare in that it contains not only scores of drawings by the greatest artist-anatomists of the Renaissance—most prominently Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael—but also anatomical manuscripts and books that are most often found in libraries rather than museums. The opportunity to look at both kinds of documents simultaneousl
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- Author
- Domenico Laurenza; Frank Dabell; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Publisher
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Distributed by Yale University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300179576
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, History, Medical
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