Flagship Program

The Flagship Program examines the history of anatomy in the medical curriculum and its connection to Italian Renaissance art and culture from Rome to Venice!

Masterpieces are considered from an anatomical perspective, revealing how the painters and sculptors from centuries ago were also students of anatomy.

Explore where anatomy as a modern science was founded as you walk the halls of William Harvey and enter the dissection theatre of Gabriele Falloppio.

The Flagship Program is also offered as a Global Seminar for San Diego State University.

Anatomia Italiana del Nord, meaning of the North, visits Milan, Pavia, Turin, and Stresa on the shores of Lake Maggiore, along with the Barolo vineyards of the Piedmont countryside.

Leonardo’s Last Supper and Michelangelo’s last Pietà, are combined with historic anatomy museums at universities in Pavia and Milan celebrating historic anatomists such as Antonio Scarpa, Camillo Golgi, and Luigi Rolando.

Anatomia Italiana del Sud, meaning of the South, explores enchanted Sicily, a Mediterranean island at the crossroads of cultures for 3,000 years, as well as select southern sites of the Italian Peninsula.

Ancient Greco-Roman depictions of the human form in sculpture, painting, and mosaic – including the body as a vehicle for religious expression in three Capuchin Crypts, are explored in this fascinating itinerary.

University anatomy museums in Palermo and Naples, the ruins of Pompeii, and the 2,500 year-old Greek temples of Agrigento, are also visited. Indulging in Sicilian cuisine is a cultural experience unique to no other region in Europe.

The Northern Europe Program fuses the university anatomy museums and the Old Operating Theatre of London, with Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp

in the Netherlands.

The richness of this program lies not only with how it connects the Italian Renaissance with the Dutch Masters, but also in how it incorporates the grandeur of Northern Europe!