The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture

by Jonathan Sawday

Book Overview

An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415157196
• ISBN13: 9780415157193
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.1"