Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today - Brossura

Rifkin, Benjamin A.

 
9780500295991: Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today

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'Mesmeric ... a macabre and illuminating survey of anatomical art' Guardian

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Benjamin A. Rifkin lives and works in New York City as a private art dealer specializing in Old Master paintings, drawings and sculpture. Michael J. Ackerman is Assistant Director for High Performance Computing and Communications at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Judy Folkenberg is a freelance writer. She is also a book artist, and binds and makes books by hand.

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Starting with the groundbreaking drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, this lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital 'Visible Human' project today. Its survey of five and a half centuries of meticulous visual description by anatomists and artists will be a welcome addition to the libraries of artists, art students, doctors and anyone interested in the history of science.

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9780500289365: Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today

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ISBN 10:  0500289360 ISBN 13:  9780500289365
Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2011
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