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Dreaming Art Anatomy

Fine Art and Anatomical Representation


As naturalistic styles of painting and sculpture developed, artists sought advanced knowledge of anatomy: Vesalius offered some illustrations specifically as an aid to artists. In the 17th and 18th centuries, formal art academies were founded with anatomy a core subject in the curriculum. Professors of anatomy performed dissections for their students and sometimes published beautiful, imaginative, and monumental, books of anatomical studies that were works of art in their own right. Typically, the art anatomy used cadavers and skeletons as models for sculpture and painting. It concentrated on skeletal and muscular anato-my and omitted everything else.


Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie by Jacques Gamelin Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie by Jacques Gamelin Anatomie du gladiateur by Jean-Galbert Salvage

 

 

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