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The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.

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The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.

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The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.

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Full title

The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.

Author / Creator

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Date

1995.

Call Numbers

N611.0092/1

Record Identifier

74VKRNXv7ARZ

MMS ID

991023202709702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xii, 327 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Contents

1. The Autoptic Vision -- 2. The Renaissance Body: From Colonization to Invention -- 3. The Body in the Theatre of Desire -- 4. Execution, Anatomy, and Infamy: Inside the Renaissance Anatomy Theatre -- 5. Sacred Anatomy and the Order of Representation -- 6. The Uncanny Body -- 7. The Realm of Anatom...

Publication information

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1995.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Sawday links the frequently illicit activities of the great anatomists of the period, to whose labours we are indebted for so much of our understanding of the structure and operation of the human body, to a wider cultural discourse which embraces not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but the very foundation of a modern idea of knowledge....

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Full title

The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-315) and index.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N611.0092/1

Record Identifier

74VKRNXv7ARZ

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRNXv7ARZ

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ISBN

0415157196 (pbk.)

9780415044448

0415044448

9780415157193 (pbk.)

DDC

611.009209031

611009209031

MMS ID

991023202709702626

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