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Today, September 29, is World Heart Day ❤️ ded

Today, September 29, is World Heart Day ❤️ dedicated to fighting cardiovascular disease, the world’s #1 killer.

This year’s campaign focuses on “knowing our hearts” because we love and protect only what we know.

🫀 This is only possible when the science of human anatomy combines with art to teach heart structure and function.🫀

These two images are quintessential examples of art as a tool in the teaching of heart anatomy.

The first photo is a Clemente Susini anatomical wax sculpture at the La Specola museum of the University of Florence.

The second image is street art anatomy right outside of the Museum of the History of Medicine, Paris Descartes University.

Take a moment and get to know your heart! Knowledge through Art and Anatomy Connected empowers us all to adopt a healthy lifestyle, preventing cardiovascular disease!

🫀Happy World Heart Day!❤️
#WorldHeartDay

Registration Now Open for SDSU Global Seminar Wint

Registration Now Open for SDSU Global Seminar Winter 2024! January 2 – 14, 2024

This 3-unit, Faculty-Led Study Abroad program meets SDSU’s College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) undergraduate international experience requirement, and fulfills the GE, Explorations, Area C: Humanities graduation requirement.

Students explore the history of anatomy in the medical curriculum, and its connection to art by traveling to Italy where anatomy as a science began.

For more info visit: anatomiaitaliana.com/sdsuwinter/

Today, September 13, Dante Alighieri died in 1321,

Today, September 13, Dante Alighieri died in 1321, possibly from malaria, in Ravenna, Italy.

Born in Florence in 1265, Dante is perhaps Italy's greatest poet and cultural icon. He wrote not in Latin as was customary, but the vernacular, which for him was the Tuscan dialect, resulting in the commoner having a greater accessibility to his work.

His magnum opus, the Divine Comedy (1320), had immense impact on Italian literature, and helped establish the modern Italian language, of which he is considered the Father.

The below images celebrate his life and works.

The first image is of the Monument of Dante Alighieri (1865) in front of the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence.

The second image is a statue of Dante outside the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

The third image is of what was believed for centuries to be the Death Mask of Dante, but is now thought to be from a lost 16th or 17th century sculptural portrait of The Poet. It is housed in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

Welcome to Anatomia Italiana: Connecting Art and A

Welcome to Anatomia Italiana: Connecting Art and Anatomy in Italy and across Europe! In this space I introduce the humanities into the sciences, explore the role of anatomic studies in the training of the Renaissance Masters, and celebrate the history of medicine! Follow along with me in this fascinating story!

💀🧠Just another day in anatomy lab: expanding

💀🧠Just another day in anatomy lab: expanding minds and changing lives! 🦴🫁

Today, August 24 is the Feast of Saint Bartholomew

Today, August 24 is the Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle!

Martyred by being skinned alive, Bartholomew is therefore the patron saint of leather makers. As a result of his martyrdom, in art he is commonly depicted as holding his flayed skin and a knife.

Such depictions offered artists the unique opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of musculature, and no where is that more dramatically displayed than in the Cathedral (or Duomo) of Milan, Italy.

Placed high upon a pedestal and along the right-wing of the transept, Saint Bartholomew Skinned by sculptor Marco d’Agrate (1562) is an exercise in both art and anatomy.

The saint drapes his skin across his shoulders, holds a knife in his right hand and in his left he clutches the gospel he proclaimed. While not entirely anatomically accurate, the sculpted musculature indicates the artist had a deep grasp of human structure, and most certainly conducted human dissection.

The first five images here are various angles of Marco d’Agrate’s 16th century sculpture, followed by two photos celebrating the stunning Gothic facade of the Milan Cathedral that houses this masterpiece.

The next image is Saint Bartholomew at San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome, by Pierre Le Gros the Younger in the 18th century, while the last image is Saint Bartholomew from a detail of Michelangelo’s 16th century Last Judgement on the back wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

In these last two images Bartholomew is not flayed, yet notice in both depictions he holds his skin and a blade. Interestingly, most scholars agree that Michelangelo placed his self portrait in the skin held by Bartholomew.

Here again we see another elegant example of Art and Anatomy Connected in Italy!

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SDSU Session II concludes in Padua with an amazing

SDSU Session II concludes in Padua with an amazing Arrivederci Dinner, along with lots of hugs and heartfelt wishes for safe travels home!

Grazie mille to my students for being so fun! They all wore the same shirt, and even got Laura and me to wear one too!

After two weeks traveling to Rome, Assisi, Bologna, Padua, and Venice exploring the history of science and medicine, and connecting that to Italian art and culture, it’s my hope their minds and worldview have expanded.

Buon viaggio i miei studenti! Un forte abbraccio a tutti!

KP✌🏼

SDSU visits the podium and very room where Galileo

SDSU visits the podium and very room where Galileo Galilei lectured over 400 years ago, along with a display containing his L5 vertebra! In these halls is where modern science began!

The 16 women of SDSU Global Seminar pose with Elen

The 16 women of SDSU Global Seminar pose with Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, who at the University of Padua in 1678 became the first woman to receive a college degree!

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Queen of the Adriatic!

Queen of the Adriatic!

SDSU visits the Ancient Anatomical Theatre at the

SDSU visits the Ancient Anatomical Theatre at the University of Bologna!

This temple to anatomical sciences dates to 1628, and is adorned with wooden sculptures of the founders of anatomy.

The professor directed the dissection from a cathedra beneath a canopy held aloft by wooden carved musclemen while the corpse rested on the marble table in the foreground.

It is here in Bologna that anatomy in the medical curriculum began, where students were first required to participate in two dissections, one of a male and another of a female, as a requirement of graduation.

The University of Bologna, founded in 1088, is the first university in the modern sense. Indeed, this nearly 1,000 year old institution coined the terms “university” and “alma mater”.

For my students pursuing careers in healthcare, understanding the foundation of anatomical science is crucial to their professional development!

In 1401 there was a competition to create a set of

In 1401 there was a competition to create a set of bronze doors for the Florence Baptistry, a seminal event fueling the Italian Renaissance.

Masters Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi each submitted a bronze panel depicting the Sacrifice of Isaac, the winner to be awarded the commission.

These 600 year old panels are exhibited in Florence’s Bargello Museum, and are shown here.

The first image, the winner, is the panel by Ghiberti. Swipe to see the panel by Brunelleschi. Comment below as to which panel you prefer!

While the loss devastated Brunelleschi, he rebounded and 18 years later was awarded the commission to design and execute a dome to close the Florence Cathedral. The resulting engineering masterpiece is still the largest masonry dome in the world.

Ghiberti’s Baptistry Doors are stunning, and were named the Gates of Paradise by Michelangelo. Brunelleschi’s dome is now the signature building of the Florence skyline.

Although bitter rivals, these two Masters each left a profound mark on Florence, cradle of the Renaissance!

⚜️SDSU embraces the culture!⚜️

⚜️SDSU embraces the culture!⚜️

Buongiorno da Firenze!

Buongiorno da Firenze!

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