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Performance art, frozen in time

For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.

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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science

From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.

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How homesickness inspires art

Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.

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The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

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  • Human sacrifice among the Khonds in India: a victim (meriah) about to be dismembered. Wood engraving by C. Krull after J. Fuchs, 186-.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • Anatomy improv'd and illustrated with regard to the uses thereof in designing: not only laid down from an examen of the bones and muscles of the human body, but also demonstrated and exemplified from the most celebrated antique statues in Rome. Exhibited in a great number of copper plates, with all the figures in various views / Intended originally for y use of the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture. And carried on under the care and inspection of Charles Errard director of the same in Rome. The dissections made by Doc[to]r Ber[nardin]o Genga ... The explanations and indexes added by ... John Maria Lancissi ... First published at Rome by Dom di Rossi and now reengraven ... And republish'd by John Senex. A work of great use to painters, sculptors, statuaries and all others studious in the noble art of designing.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
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