Seminar Description

This seminar provides an overview of Renaissance anatomical studies, focusing on the norms, practices, and settings of the field, as well as the connections between anatomy and the fine arts during the period. We will focus on selected examples of collaboration between early modern artists and anatomists and on the production of the wonderfully illustrated printed anatomical texts that started to flourish around the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Three sessions. E – $170, R – $187

Daniele Macuglia is a historian and a visiting research fellow at the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Trained as a physicist in Italy, he earned his PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Chicago.

Materials List

Required:

• J.B. deC. M. Saunders and Charles D. O'Malley, The Illustrations from the Works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels. Dover Publications. ISBN: 978-0486209685

First Reading:

• There is no assigned reading for the first session.

Registration Information

• Online registration opens at 9 am (CST) on Tuesday, January 7.
• Phone registration opens at 12 pm (CST) on Wednesday, January 8.

Early registration (E) prices are in effect from January 7 at 9 am through January 24 at 4 pm. Regular registration (R) prices are in effect January 24 at 4 pm through the end of the term.

We offer a 10% discount to members, seniors, and students.

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