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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Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday. CONTENTS List of figures Preface and ... DISSECTING PEOPLE 183 8 ' ROYAL SCIENCE ' 230 Notes Index V 271 316 FIGURES Frontispiece Benvenuto Cellini , Perseus ( Piazza ...
Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday. FIGURES Frontispiece Benvenuto Cellini , Perseus ( Piazza della signoria , Florence ) . between pages 38 and 39 1 The nerve system from Vesalius , De Humani Corporis ...
Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday. 22 Title - page from Theodor Kerckring , Spicilegium Anatomicum ( 1670 ) . 23 Dissected figure against a tree from Charles Estienne , De Dissectione ( 1545 ) . 24 ...
Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday. cultural ' map ' of knowledge within which men ... dissection is an insistence on the partition of something ( or someone ) which ( or who ) hitherto possessed their ...
Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday. THE AUTOPTIC VISION from such images is that ... dissecting room ' , Cecil Helman writes , ' shows us the difference between erotic art and pornography , between human ...
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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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 1995 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 2013 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday No preview available - 1995 |