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

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

3 Greek Poseidon 5 th Century B.C.

4 Raice Warrior, 5 th century B.C. Greek

5 Venus De Milo-100-200 B.C.

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

7 ROMAN_Emperor Trebonianus Gallus found in Rome_251- 253 AD_ The Romans began to show people as they are, never mind the ideal

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

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

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

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

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

13 Grunewald - Altarpiece 1515

14 Leonardo Vitruvian Man Influence of mathematics on bodily presentation

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16 Bernini 1622 Apollo and Daphne

17 Bernini 1622 Close up Daphne

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

19 Eakins- The Crucifixion (1880)

20 Eakins- Boy in Artelier

21 Mary Cassatt 1844-1926

22 Van Gogh 1885 Skull of Skeleton With Burning Cigarette

23 Nude Descending a Staircase Duchamp 1926 Body as Mechanism

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

25 Kahn – Germany 1920s Body as machine

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

27 Lucien Freud 1987 Girl on a Bed

28 Medical Topics Rembrandt The Anatomy Lesson

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

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

31 Bodies: The Exhibition

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33 Ron Mueck

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