Week 4 - Medicine, Technology and Art - Flora Huo

Michelangelo's David: Admire World's Greatest Sculpture at Accademia GalleryAccademia.org

https://www.accademia.org/explore-museum/artworks/michelangelos-david/

When it comes to the topic of the relationship between medical technologies and artist projects, the first thing that comes into my mind is sculpture and anatomy. Before the advent of modern anatomy, ancient Greek sculptures can accurately display muscle lines and show details of the human body on sculptures. The reason is that Ancient Greece has similar disciplines, such as Aristotle's zoology, and Galen's anatomy (mainly animal anatomy), but there are also other ways of understanding anatomy such as surgery and autopsy.


Digital Artistic Sketch of the Human Anatomy Stock Illustration - Illustration of guts, graphics: 159359837

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However, people/artists can also get a general understanding of human modeling methods through external observation and don't underestimate the knowledge of artistic anatomy left by the artist through the works of art. To expand, the great ancient Greek sculptor Polyclitus once wrote the rules, Canon, in which he explained the proportions of the human body and the key points of sculpture creation in detail, but this book has been lost. Even so, Polyclitus also left an amazing artwork according to his rules, Canon: Doryphoros. It is the best example and works to illustrate the key points in the Canon. Later on, there was already very systematic anatomy in Leonardo Da Vinci's time. But strongly influenced by Scholasticism and Galen's anatomy, until the mid-16th century, 40 years after Leonardo's death, when Vesalius pioneered anatomy. Autopsy and public dissection experiments were all the rage in Italy at the time, including obstetrics, and anatomical theatres were established. All in all, the development and success of sculptures could be related to the development of anatomy, and this illustrates the relationship between medical technology and artwork well.

Anatomy theatre as museum | cabinet

https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/anatomy-theatre-museum




Citations


Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2016, May 4). Polyclitus. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Polyclitus

Erjavic, Nicole, "Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)". Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2018-01-10). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/13042.

 

Martyn Shuttleworth (Feb 13, 2010). Aristotle’s Zoology. Retrieved Apr 22, 2022 from Explorable.com: https://explorable.com/aristotles-zoology

Nutton, V. (2022, January 1). Galen. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galen

 

Tobin, R. (1975). The Canon of Polykleitos. American Journal of Archaeology, 79(4), 307–321. https://doi.org/10.2307/503064

 

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