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The Body in Western Art American Friends of Augustine College Gary Swanson, M.D Robert Blume, M.D. Ross Betts, M.D.
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Analytic body - assemblage of parts each seen in their most typical presentation (eye and torso front on; profile nose, head, legs, etc.) Egyptian Presentation
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Greek Poseidon 5 th Century B.C.
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Raice Warrior, 5 th century B.C. Greek
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Venus De Milo-100-200 B.C.
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The Hellenistic Greek dying Gaul - suffering, actual dying, would not have been depicted by the ancient Greeks
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ROMAN_Emperor Trebonianus Gallus found in Rome_251- 253 AD_ The Romans began to show people as they are, never mind the ideal
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Covered body of Eve -- Romanesque Period 1120 A.D
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Strasburg Cathedral !3th Century AD Note that Clothing obscures bodily contour
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Wretchedness and penitence (body as, perhaps, an image of the soul) Donatello 1462 AD Mary Magdalene
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Mantegna 1490 AD Lamentation Over the Dead Christ Pathos expressed; medieval elements of form persist
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Holbein-The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521)
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Grunewald - Altarpiece 1515
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Leonardo Vitruvian Man Influence of mathematics on bodily presentation
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Bernini 1622 Apollo and Daphne
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Bernini 1622 Close up Daphne
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Canova 1804 Perseus with Head of Medusa Back to the Future?
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Eakins- The Crucifixion (1880)
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Eakins- Boy in Artelier
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Mary Cassatt 1844-1926
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Van Gogh 1885 Skull of Skeleton With Burning Cigarette
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Nude Descending a Staircase Duchamp 1926 Body as Mechanism
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Picasso 1907 Desmoiselles d’Avignon Fracturing and dislocation of the Body
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Kahn – Germany 1920s Body as machine
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Bacon 1969 Study of a Nude with a figure in a Mirror
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Lucien Freud 1987 Girl on a Bed
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Medical Topics Rembrandt The Anatomy Lesson
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Medical Topics Thomas Eakins- The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic
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Medical Topics Edvard Munch (1902)-Self Portrait on the Operating Table
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Bodies: The Exhibition
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Ron Mueck
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