The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance CultureAn outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. |
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... Oxford ( Fig . 8 ) ; Wellcome Institute Library , London ( Figs 10 , 11 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ) ; Mauritshuis - The Hague ( Fig . 18 ) ; Historische Museum , Amsterdam ( Fig . 19 ) ; Bridgeman Art Library ( Fig . 20 ) ; Cambridge ...
... ( Oxford English Dictionary ) When did the interior of the modern body make its appearance ? The question asks us to focus on the nature of the conceptual tools with which we have come to understand our own bodies . Those tools are ...
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Contents
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THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE | 39 |
INSIDE | 54 |
SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION | 85 |
THE UNCANNY BODY | 141 |
DISSECTING PEOPLE | 183 |
ROYAL SCIENCE | 230 |
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