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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 context for the academic programming behind Anatomia Italiana.

Journal Articles

Ballestriero, R. Anatomical Wax Venuses. Journal of Anatomy (pdf)Download
Bell. Art, Anatomy, and Medicine: Is There a Place for Art in Medical Education? Anatomical Sciences (pdf)Download
Brockbank, Old Anatomical Theatres and What Took Place Therein. Medical History (pdf)Download
Cappello. Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia: A Five-Hundred Year-Long Lesson. Clinical Anatomy (pdf)Download
de Campos. Hidden Rib in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. Clinical Anatomy (pdf)Download
Eknoyan. Michelangelo: Art, Anatomy, and the Kidney. Kidney International (pdf)Download
Galassi, Ruggeri, Petti. Marvels of the Bologna Anatomical Wax Museum. HAPS Educator (pdf)Download
Garrison. Anatomy and Art Through the Ages, Karger Gazette (pdf)Download
Gelsi, Ruggeri, Petti, K. The Mermaid Models of the Bologna Wax Collection, HAPS Educator (pdf)Download
Kemp. Style/Non-Style in Anatomical Illustration: Renaissance Humanism to Henry Gray, Journal of Ana (pdf)Download
Laurenza. Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (pdf)Download
Lazzeri. Concealed Lung Anatomy in Botticelli’s Primavera and Birth of Venus, Acta Biomed (pdf)Download
Maraldi. Anatomical Waxwork Modeling: History of the Bologna Anatomy Museum, The Anatomical Record (pdf)Download
Meshberger. Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam Based on Neuroanatomy, JAMA (pdf)Download
Panzer. Multidetector CT Investigation of the Mummy of Rosalia Lombardo, Annals of Anatomy (pdf)Download
Panzer. Anthropogenic Mummification in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, RadioGraphics (pdf)Download
Park. Commentary in: Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Octavo CD Edition (pdf)Download
Park. Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy, Renaissance Quarte (pdf)Download
Park. Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe, Journ History of Medicine (pdf)Download
Porzionato. The Anatomical School of Padua, The Anatomical Record (pdf)Download
Riva. Evolution of Anatomical Wax Modeling in Italy, 16th-19th Centuries, Journal of Anatomy (pdf)Download
Suk. Concealed Neuroanatomy in Michelangelo’s Separation of Light from Darkness, Neurosurgery (pdf)Download
Zampieri. Andreas Vesalius: 500 years of dissecting nature, Global Cardiology Science and Practice (pdf)Download
Waxing Poetic: Anna Morandi Manzolini's Anatomical Sculptures, Johns Hopkins Univ Press (pdf)Download
Lazzeri. Madonna of the Pomegranate: Hidden Cardiac Anatomy. Interactive Cardiovascular Surgery (pdf)Download

Bibliography

  • Carlino, A. Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning, University of Chicago Press, 1999.


  • Cunningham, A. The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients, Scolar Press, 1997.


  • Klestinec, C. Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.


  • O’Malley, C. and Saunders, J. Leonardo da Vinci: Leonardo on the Human Body. Dover, 1983.


  • Park, K. Secrets Of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection, Zone Books, 2006.


  • Rifkin, B. and Ackerman, M. Human Anatomy: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age, Abrams Publishers, 2006.


  • Riva, A (editor). Flesh and Wax: The Clemente Susini Anatomical Models in the University of Cagliari, Ilisso, 2007.


  • Saunders, J. and O’Malley, C. The Anatomical Drawings of Andreas Vesalius, Bonanza Books, 1982.


  • Sawday, J. The Body Embalzoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture, Routledge, 1995.


  • Stone, I. The Agony and The Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo,  New American Library, 1961.


  • Von During, M., Poggesi, M. and Didi-Huberman, G. Encyclopaedia Anatomica: Museo La Specola Florence, Taschen, 1999.


  • Wallace, W. Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man, and His Times, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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