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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... pages 38 and 39 1 The nerve system from Vesalius , De Humani Corporis Fabrica ( 1543 ) . 2 Title - page from Vesalius , De Humani Corporis Fabrica ( 1543 ) . 3 Dissection scene from Johannes de Ketham , Fasciculo de Medicina ( 1493 ) ...
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 ...
... title - page of the Fabrica , had himself pictured placing his right hand on the dissected female body , in a gesture of ownership ( Figure 2 ) a gesture which may bring to mind Donne's hand reaching out in Elegie XIX : ' Then where my ...
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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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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 |