Imagining Vesalius
Imagining Vesalius is a collection of ekphrastic works - poetry, prose, watercolors and sculpture - celebrating De Humani Corporis Fabrica, the 1543 landmark anatomical atlas by Andreas Vesalius. Using the stunning woodcuts in this famous book as inspiration - woodcuts elaborated by artists from Tit...
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2025
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| description | Imagining Vesalius is a collection of ekphrastic works - poetry, prose, watercolors and sculpture - celebrating De Humani Corporis Fabrica, the 1543 landmark anatomical atlas by Andreas Vesalius. Using the stunning woodcuts in this famous book as inspiration - woodcuts elaborated by artists from Titian's studio in nearby Venice - well known writers and artists have composed 53 poems, prose poems and art works on subjects ranging from a parent's autopsy to immortality through dissection, murder, organ donation to amputation to the role of women in dissection to the anatomy of gaze. In addition there are four introductory essays by authorities in their fields on ekphrasis, Vesalius's place in the history of medicine, Vesalius as seen by a modern day poet, and a contemplative reflection on Vesalius's contributions to the development of dissection. Additionally there is a section of translation including seven poems to or about Vesalius by famous contemporaries or near contemporaries, including Philip Melanchthon and Jakob Balde. Six are from Neo-Latin; one is from Italian. Four represent the first time these poems appear in English and all benefit from original scholarship. After an extensive bibliography with online resources, the book ends with brief biographies of the authors. A rich anthology of Vesaliana, Imagining Vesalius will prove of interest to readers and scholars alike, with its offerings in ekphrasis, literature and medicine, the history of medicine and late medieval studies in art, anatomy and medicine. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1508322025-02-03T10:19:48Z Imagining Vesalius Ratzan, Richard M. Medical / History thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine Imagining Vesalius is a collection of ekphrastic works - poetry, prose, watercolors and sculpture - celebrating De Humani Corporis Fabrica, the 1543 landmark anatomical atlas by Andreas Vesalius. Using the stunning woodcuts in this famous book as inspiration - woodcuts elaborated by artists from Titian's studio in nearby Venice - well known writers and artists have composed 53 poems, prose poems and art works on subjects ranging from a parent's autopsy to immortality through dissection, murder, organ donation to amputation to the role of women in dissection to the anatomy of gaze. In addition there are four introductory essays by authorities in their fields on ekphrasis, Vesalius's place in the history of medicine, Vesalius as seen by a modern day poet, and a contemplative reflection on Vesalius's contributions to the development of dissection. Additionally there is a section of translation including seven poems to or about Vesalius by famous contemporaries or near contemporaries, including Philip Melanchthon and Jakob Balde. Six are from Neo-Latin; one is from Italian. Four represent the first time these poems appear in English and all benefit from original scholarship. After an extensive bibliography with online resources, the book ends with brief biographies of the authors. A rich anthology of Vesaliana, Imagining Vesalius will prove of interest to readers and scholars alike, with its offerings in ekphrasis, literature and medicine, the history of medicine and late medieval studies in art, anatomy and medicine. 2025-02-03T10:19:47Z 2025-02-03T10:19:47Z 2020 book ONIX_20250203_9780996324298_5 9780996324298 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150832 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/124661 University of California Health Humanities Press 9d784c0b-b0f7-43a6-b03f-72a40e4ca18c 9780996324298 304 open access |
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