Luca Cambiaso Apollo flaying Marsyas,16th c. Pen and brown ink and wash 16 13/16 x 11 1/16 in. Bequest of Professor Alfred Moir 2012.58.205

Revealing the Body: The Art of Anatomy

Revealing the Body: The Art of Anatomy

May 2, 2015 - December 6, 2015
Galleries 315/316
Free Exhibition

During the Renaissance, the advent of printmaking and a new interest in anatomical science converge in representing man for the beauty of his proportions and for the mechanical perfection of his inner structure. Famous artists illustrated the studies of physicians, and dissections became the theater of a new empirical approach to anatomy. In this exhibition, precious, rare volumes from the early 16th to the 18th century, on loan from The Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, join artists’ manuals, drawings, and prints from Mia’s Prints & Drawing collection, and a skeleton and skulls from the Science Museum of Minnesota, to celebrate the glory of the human body.

Luca Cambiaso Apollo flaying Marsyas,16th c. Pen and brown ink and wash 16 13/16 x 11 1/16 in. Bequest of Professor Alfred Moir 2012.58.205