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xxvi, 392 pages : illustrations, facsimiles

Collaborations in art and medicine, 1491-1543 : the development of anatomical studies in Italian medical treatises / by Roslynne Valerie Wilson.

<p>Death is the one inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and "anatomical Eves," Gothic literature, funeral effigies, Halloween, and paintings of the Last Judgment. Deceased ancestors are celebrated in the Mexican Day of the Dead, while the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead to secure their afterlife.0A volume of unprecedented breadth and sinister beauty, 'Death: A Graveside Companion' examines a staggering range of cultural attitudes toward death. The book is organized into themed chapters: The Art of Dying, Examining the Dead, Memorializing the Dead, The Personification of Death, Symbolizing Death, Death as Amusement, and The Dead After Life. Each chapter begins with thought-provoking articles by curators, academics, and journalists followed by gallery spreads presenting a breathtaking variety of death-related imagery and artifacts. From skulls to the dance of death, statuettes to ex libris, memento mori to memorabilia, all the images are of artifacts in the astonishing collection of Richard Harris and range from 2000 BCE to the present day, running the gamut of both high and popular culture.</p>

367 pages : colour illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm

Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

120 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 22 cm

The quick and the dead : artists and anatomy / Deanna Petherbridge, Ludmilla Jordanova.

2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, map ; 31 cm

The Royal Academy of Arts and its anatomical teachings : with an examination of the art-anatomy practices during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain / Anne Carol Darlington.

Utrecht Renaissance Studies

De grenzen van het lichaam innerlijk en uiterlijk in de Renaissance / onder redactie van Arie-Jan Gelderblom en Harald Hendrix.

Medizinhistorisches Journal.

pages 291-318 : illustrations (some color).

Un beau monument iconographique de la science de l'homme : der Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme des Anatomen Jean Marc Bourgery und seines Zeichners Nicolas Henri Jacob / Reinhard Hildebrand.

Médecine à travers les siècles

249 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.

Léonard de Vinci : un anatomiste visionnaire / Dominique Le Nen ; préface de Christian Fontaine.

Medical Heritage Library

18 unnumbered pages, xviii, 2 unnumbered pages, 203 pages, plates : illustrations

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung nach ihrer Beziehung auf anatomische Wissenschaft und bildende Kunst / von Ludwig Choulant.

213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Fearful symmetry : George Stubbs, painter of the English Enlightenment / edited by Nicholas H. J. Hall ; including essays by Malcolm Cormack, Judy Egerton, Richard Godfrey.

67 pages, 25 pages of plates (one folded) : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Collaborations in art and medicine, 1491-1543 : the development of anatomical studies in Italian medical treatises / by Roslynne Valerie Wilson.

Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

The quick and the dead : artists and anatomy / Deanna Petherbridge, Ludmilla Jordanova.

The Royal Academy of Arts and its anatomical teachings : with an examination of the art-anatomy practices during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain / Anne Carol Darlington.

De grenzen van het lichaam innerlijk en uiterlijk in de Renaissance / onder redactie van Arie-Jan Gelderblom en Harald Hendrix.

Un beau monument iconographique de la science de l'homme : der Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme des Anatomen Jean Marc Bourgery und seines Zeichners Nicolas Henri Jacob / Reinhard Hildebrand.

Léonard de Vinci : un anatomiste visionnaire / Dominique Le Nen ; préface de Christian Fontaine.

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung nach ihrer Beziehung auf anatomische Wissenschaft und bildende Kunst / von Ludwig Choulant.

Fearful symmetry : George Stubbs, painter of the English Enlightenment / edited by Nicholas H. J. Hall ; including essays by Malcolm Cormack, Judy Egerton, Richard Godfrey.

L'iconografia anatomica fra arte e scienza / Raffaele A. Bernabeo.

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Collaborations in art and medicine, 1491-1543 : the development of anatomical studies in Italian medical treatises / by Roslynne Valerie Wilson.

Death : a graveside companion / edited by Joanna Ebenstein ; foreword by Will Self.

The quick and the dead : artists and anatomy / Deanna Petherbridge, Ludmilla Jordanova.

The Royal Academy of Arts and its anatomical teachings : with an examination of the art-anatomy practices during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain / Anne Carol Darlington.

De grenzen van het lichaam innerlijk en uiterlijk in de Renaissance / onder redactie van Arie-Jan Gelderblom en Harald Hendrix.

Un beau monument iconographique de la science de l'homme : der Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme des Anatomen Jean Marc Bourgery und seines Zeichners Nicolas Henri Jacob / Reinhard Hildebrand.

Léonard de Vinci : un anatomiste visionnaire / Dominique Le Nen ; préface de Christian Fontaine.

Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung nach ihrer Beziehung auf anatomische Wissenschaft und bildende Kunst / von Ludwig Choulant.

Fearful symmetry : George Stubbs, painter of the English Enlightenment / edited by Nicholas H. J. Hall ; including essays by Malcolm Cormack, Judy Egerton, Richard Godfrey.

L'iconografia anatomica fra arte e scienza / Raffaele A. Bernabeo.

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