Flesh & Wax. The Clemente Susini's anatomical models in the University of Cagliari
Author: Alessandro Riva
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9788889188989
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Ceroplastics
Author: Roberta Ballestriero
Publisher: L'Erma Di Bretschneider
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9788891318411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anatomical Venus
Author: Morbid Anatomy Museum
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2016-05-16
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0500773262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It - or, better, she - was conceived of as a means to teach human anatomy without need for constant dissection, which was messy, ethically fraught and subject to quick decay. This life-sized wax woman is adorned with glass eyes and human hair and can be dismembered into dozens of parts revealing, at the final remove, a beatific foetus curled in her womb. Sister models soon appeared throughout Europe, where they not only instructed the specialist students, but also delighted the general public. Deftly crafted dissectable female wax models and slashed beauties of the world's anatomy museums and fairgrounds of the 18th and 19th centuries take centre stage in this disquieting volume. Since their creation in late 18th-century Florence, these wax women have seduced, intrigued and amazed. Today, they also confound, troubling the edges of our neat categorical divides: life and death, science and art, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy, spectacle and education, kitsch and art. Incisive commentary and captivating imagery reveal the evolution of these enigmatic sculptures from wax effigy to fetish figure and the embodiment of the uncanny.
Monsieur Vénus
Author: Rachilde
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1603292551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
Ephemeral Bodies
Author: Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780892368778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe critical history of wax is fraught with gaps and controversies. These eight essays explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts throughout history, and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of western art.
Rethinking Medical Humanities
Author: Rinaldo F. Canalis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2022-12-19
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 3110788594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the particular language of the disciplines concerned with the human experience. However, as much as at first sight this definition appears to be clear, it does not reflect how the interaction of medicine with the humanities has evolved to become a separate field of study. In this publication we have explored, through the analysis of a group of selected multidisciplinary essays, the dynamics of this process. The essays predominantly address the interaction of literature, philosophy, art, art history, ethics, and education with medicine and its specialties from the classical period to the present. Particular attention has been given to the Medieval, Early Modern, and Enlightenment periods. To avoid a rigid compartmentalization of the book based on individual fields of study we opted for a fluid division into multidisciplinary sections, reflective of the complex interactions of the included works with medicine.
The Lady Anatomist
Author: Rebecca Messbarger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0226520846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnna Morandi Manzolini (1714-74), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment. The Lady Anatomist tells the story of her arresting life and times, in light of the intertwined histories of science, gender, and art that complicated her rise to fame in the eighteenth century. Examining the details of Morandi’s remarkable life, Rebecca Messbarger traces her intellectual trajectory from provincial artist to internationally renowned anatomical wax modeler for the University of Bologna’s famous medical school. Placing Morandi’s work within its cultural and historical context, as well as in line with the Italian tradition of anatomical studies and design, Messbarger uncovers the messages contained within Morandi’s wax inscriptions, part complex theories of the body and part poetry. Widely appealing to those with an interest in the tangled histories of art and the body, and including lavish, full-color reproductions of Morandi’s work, The Lady Anatomist is a sophisticated biography of a true visionary.
Brain and Art
Author: Bruno Colombo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-08-29
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 3030235807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes and discusses in detail art therapy, a specific tool used to sustain health in affective developments, rehabilitation, motor skills and cognitive functions. Art therapy is based on the assumption that the process of making art (music, dance, painting) sparks emotions and enhances brain activity. Art therapy is used to encourage personal growth, facilitate particular brain areas or activity patterns, and improve neural connectivity. Treating neurological diseases using artistic strategies offers us a unique option for engaging brain structural networks that enhance the brain’s ability to form new connections. Based on brain plasticity, art therapy has the potential to increase our repertoire for treating neurological diseases. Neural substrates are the basis of complex emotions relative to art experiences, and involve a widespread activation of cognitive and motor systems. Accordingly, art therapy has the capacity to modulate behavior, cognition, attention and movement. In this context, art therapy can offer effective tools for improving general well-being, quality of life and motivation in connection with neurological diseases. The book discusses art therapy as a potential group of techniques for the treatment of neurological disturbances and approaches the relationship between humanistic disciplines and neurology from a holistic perspective, reflecting the growing interest in this interconnection.
A Directory of History of Medicine Collections
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anatomical Venus
Author: Joanna Ebenstein
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781938922916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt head of title: Morbid Anatomy Museum.
