The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.
The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N611.0092/1
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English
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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...
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Publisher
London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1995.
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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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The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-315) and index.
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N611.0092/1
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74VKRNXv7ARZ
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0415157196 (pbk.)
9780415044448
0415044448
9780415157193 (pbk.)
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611.009209031
611009209031
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991023202709702626