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Connecting Art and Anatomy is better understood through engagement with the scholarly underpinnings of Anatomia Italiana.

Below are downloadable journal articles and a selected bibliography, providing essential context for the academic grounding of Dr. Petti's programming.

Selected Publications

  1. Bacci, 2024. Perceptions of Journal Editors on the Use of Eponyms in Anatomical Publishing: The Need for Compromise, Anatomical Science International. (pdf)
  2. Ballestriero, 1995. Anatomical Models and Wax Venuses: Art Masterpieces or Scientific Specimens?, 1995. (pdf)
  3. Bell, 2009. Art, Anatomy, and Medicine: Is There a Place for Art in Medical Education?, Anatomical Sciences. (pdf)
  4. Brockbank, 1954. Old Anatomical Theatres and What Took Place Therein, Medical History. (pdf)
  5. Di Matteo, 2014. Art in Science: Giovanni Paolo Mascagni and the Art of Anatomy, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. (pdf)
  6. Eknoyan, 2000. Michelangelo: Art, Anatomy, and the Kidney, Kidney International. (pdf)
  7. Galassi, Ruggeri, Petti, 2015. Marvels of the Bologna Anatomy Museum, Clinical Anatomy. (pdf)
  8. Garrison, 2010. Anatomy and Art Through the Ages, Karger Gazette. (pdf)
  9. Gelsi, Ruggeri, Petti, 2015. The Mermaid Models of the Bologna Anatomy Museum, Clinical Anatomy. (pdf)
  10. Hove, 2008. Dr Nicolaes Tulp's Anatomy Lecture, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. (pdf)
  11. Kemp, 2010. Style/Non-Style in Anatomical Illustration: Renaissance and After, Journal of Anatomy. (pdf)
  12. Laurenza, 2012. Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. (pdf)
  13. Lazzeri, 2012. Madonna of the Pomegranate: Hidden Cardiac Anatomy in Botticelli's Masterpiece, Cardiovascular Pathology. (pdf)
  14. Lazzeri, 2012. Concealed Lung Anatomy in Botticelli's Primavera, Clinical Anatomy. (pdf)
  15. Liu, 2025. The Interconnection of Art and Science in the Renaissance, Journal of Anatomy. (pdf)
  16. Maraldi, 2008. Anatomical Waxwork Modeling: History of the Bologna School, Journal of Anatomy. (pdf)
  17. Meshberger, 1990. Michelangelo's Creation of Adam Based on Neuroanatomy, JAMA. (pdf)
  18. Mitchell, 2022. How Cranial Surgery was Performed in Italy During the Medieval Period, Journal of Neurosurgery. (pdf)
  19. Orsini, 2017. The Anatomical World of Paolo Mascagni - Reasoned Reading of the Anatomy Works of his Library, Medicina Historica. (pdf)
  20. Panzer, 2013. Anthropogenic Mummification in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Journal of Cultural Heritage. (pdf)
  21. Panzer, 2013. Multidetector CT Investigation of the Mummy of Rosalia Lombardo, Annals of Anatomy. (pdf)
  22. Park, 1994. Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy, Renaissance Quarterly. (pdf)
  23. Park, 2003. Commentary in: Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Journal of the History of Medicine. (pdf)
  24. Park, 1995. Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. (pdf)
  25. Pelavski, 2024. Dissection Revisited: Deciphering Bodies and Identities, Clinical Anatomy. (pdf)
  26. Petti & Galassi, 2012. What's the diagnosis? Horseshoe Kidney in a 16th-Century Anatomical Wax Model, Clinical Anatomy. (pdf)
  27. Piombino-Mascali, 2009. Catacomb Mummies of Sicily, Journal of Biological Research. (pdf)
  28. Porzionato, 2012. The Anatomical School of Padua, The Anatomical Record. (pdf)
  29. Riva, 2010. Evolution of Anatomical Wax Modeling in Italy, 1650–1800, Journal of Anatomy. (pdf)
  30. Suk, 2010. Concealed Neuroanatomy in Michelangelo's Separation of Light from Darkness, Neurosurgery. (pdf)
  31. Waxing Poetic, 2003. Anna Morandi Manzolini's Anatomical Sculptures, Johns Hopkins University Press. (pdf)
  32. Zampieri, 2015. Andreas Vesalius: 500 years of dissecting nature, Global Cardiology Science and Practice. (pdf)

Selected Bibliography for Further Reading

  1. Carlino, A. (1999). Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning. University of Chicago Press.
  2. Cazort, M., Kornell, M., & Roberts, K. B. (1996). The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy. National Gallery of Canada.
  3. Cunningham, A. (1997). The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients. Scolar Press.
  4. Dacome, L. (2017). Malleable Anatomies: Models, Makers, and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Oxford University Press.
  5. Kemp, M., & Wallace, M. (2000). Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now. Hayward Gallery.
  6. Laurenza, D. (2012). Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy: Images from a Scientific Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  7. Lind, L. R. (1975). Studies in Pre-Vesalian Anatomy: Biography, Translations, Documents. American Philosophical Society.
  8. O'Malley, C. D. (1964). Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514–1564. University of California Press.
  9. Park, K. (2006). Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection. Zone Books.
  10. Persaud, T. V. N. (1984). Early History of Human Anatomy: From Antiquity to the Beginning of the Modern Era. Charles C Thomas.
  11. Rifkin, B. A., Ackerman, M. J., & Folkenberg, J. (2006). Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today. Thames & Hudson.
  12. Saunders, J. B., & O'Malley, C. D. (1950). The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels. World Publishing Company.
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