The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0888846576 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Ingenious Machine of Nature Four Centuries of Art and A Customer The National Gallery of Canada has outdone itself in every way. Kudos to Cazort, Kornell, and Roberts for putting together an astounding book about anatomy in art, a book that is easily comprehensible and not overly bearing. The Drawings and prints reproduced in the book are amazing themselves. The book traces the development of anatomy through the ages. Tough to find a comparable book.
-- Midwest Book Review. Enjoy an exhibition catalog of anatomical drawings, prints and illustrations including examples by major and lesser-known artists alike, complimented by a text which covers the teaching of anatomy and its representation. Cazort and others consider four centuries of art and anatomy in a title which traces the birth of renaissance art and the field of anatomical study around 1500
Theillustrations which they devised together mark the longest unbroken collaboration betweenscientists and artists in western culture. These "maps of the body" established the basis for thefigurative tradition in painting and sculpture which lasts to this day. Anatomists needed artists to illustrate their books, and artistsneeded anatomists to help them understand the body's structure, movement, and function. The text, written for the interested layman aswell as the specialist, explores popular anatomical broadsheets, the teaching of anatomy toyoung artists, female anatomy as revealing the origins of life, the anatomical dissection theatres, and "anatomy satirized.". The exhibition cataloguereproduces anatomical drawings, prints, and illustrated books, and includes examples bymajor artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Durer, and Rubens but alsothe eloquent illustrations by lesser known artists. Renaissance art and the descriptive science of human anatomy were born at exactly the samemoment in Italy around 1500