Erika Gielen; Michèle Goyens (Editors). Towards the Authority of Vesalius: Studies on Medicine and the Human Body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and Beyond. (Studies in the Transmission of Texts and Ideas, 6.) 475 pp., index. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. €110 (cloth). ISBN 9782503579146.Rinaldo Fernando Canalis; Massimo Ciavolella (Editors). Andreas Vesalius and the “Fabrica” in the Age of Printing: Art, Anatomy, and Printing in the Italian Renaissance. (Cursor Mundi, 33.) xxiv + 332 pp., illus., index. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. €100 (cloth). ISBN 9782503576237.

Isis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-817
Author(s):  
Vivian Nutton
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Andreas Vesalius ◽  
Cursor Mundi

scholarly journals Vesalius Revised. His Annotations to the 1555 Fabrica1

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Nutton
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Andreas Vesalius

AbstractThe De humani corporis fabrica [The Fabric of the Human Body], Basle, 1543, of Andreas Vesalius is deservedly famous as the first modern book of anatomy. A second edition was published in Basle in 1555, but little is known of Vesalius’ activities after that date. This article discusses a recent find: Vesalius’ own copy of the 1555 edition, heavily annotated in preparation for a never published third edition. Vesalius made hundreds of changes to the second edition, the great majority being stylistic, altering the Latin words but not the overall meaning. There are also changes to the plates to give greater clarity or to correct mistakes by the original block-cutter. There is little new anatomical material, although Vesalius continued to meditate about what he had earlier discovered. He shows no sign of being acquainted with the findings of others, like Colombo or Falloppia, that were published after he had moved his residence from Brussels to Spain in summer 1559, perhaps leaving this volume behind. The number of annotations shows Vesalius’ passionate concern not only for accuracy but also for the most effective way of proclaiming his new anatomical message.

scholarly journals Andreas Vesalius as a renaissance innovative neuroanatomist: his 5th centenary of birth

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleide da Mota Gomes ◽  
Mauricio Moscovici ◽  
Eliasz Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Scientific Advance ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Andreas Vesalius ◽  
European Renaissance

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) is considered the Father of Modern Anatomy, and an authentic representative of the Renaissance. His studies, founded on dissection of human bodies, differed from Galeno, who based his work on dissection of animals, constituted a notable scientific advance. Putting together science and art, Vesalius associated himself to artists of the Renaissance, and valued the images of the human body in his superb work De Humani Corporis Fabrica.This paper aims to honor this extraordinary European Renaissance physician and anatomist, who used aesthetic appeal to bind text and illustration, science and art. His achievements are highlighted, with an especial attention on neuroanatomy. Aspects about his personal life and career are also focused.

Stanley Kubrick and the Aesthetics of the Grotesque

2006 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES NAREMORE
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Stanley Kubrick ◽  
The Grotesque

ABSTRACT ““The grotesque,”” which became a stylistic term in the Italian renaissance and later contributed significantly to all forms of modernist art, can help us better understand the so-called ““coldness”” often attributed to Stanley Kubrick's films. The whole of Kubrick's art is designed to produce a grotesque clash of emotions, an unstable blending of humor and terror that derives ultimately from anxieties about the human body.

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