The Body in Western Art American Friends of Augustine College Gary Swanson, M.D Robert Blume, M.D. Ross Betts, M.D.

Analytic body - assemblage of parts each seen in their most typical presentation (eye and torso front on; profile nose, head, legs, etc.) Egyptian Presentation

Greek Poseidon 5 th Century B.C.

Raice Warrior, 5 th century B.C. Greek

Venus De Milo B.C.

The Hellenistic Greek dying Gaul - suffering, actual dying, would not have been depicted by the ancient Greeks

ROMAN_Emperor Trebonianus Gallus found in Rome_ AD_ The Romans began to show people as they are, never mind the ideal

Covered body of Eve -- Romanesque Period 1120 A.D

Strasburg Cathedral !3th Century AD Note that Clothing obscures bodily contour

Wretchedness and penitence (body as, perhaps, an image of the soul) Donatello 1462 AD Mary Magdalene

Mantegna 1490 AD Lamentation Over the Dead Christ Pathos expressed; medieval elements of form persist

Holbein-The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521)

Grunewald - Altarpiece 1515

Leonardo Vitruvian Man Influence of mathematics on bodily presentation

Bernini 1622 Apollo and Daphne

Bernini 1622 Close up Daphne

Canova 1804 Perseus with Head of Medusa Back to the Future?

Eakins- The Crucifixion (1880)

Eakins- Boy in Artelier

Mary Cassatt

Van Gogh 1885 Skull of Skeleton With Burning Cigarette

Nude Descending a Staircase Duchamp 1926 Body as Mechanism

Picasso 1907 Desmoiselles d’Avignon Fracturing and dislocation of the Body

Kahn – Germany 1920s Body as machine

Bacon 1969 Study of a Nude with a figure in a Mirror

Lucien Freud 1987 Girl on a Bed

Medical Topics Rembrandt The Anatomy Lesson

Medical Topics Thomas Eakins- The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic

Medical Topics Edvard Munch (1902)-Self Portrait on the Operating Table

Bodies: The Exhibition

Ron Mueck