The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy

by Mimi Cazort

Renaissance art and the descriptive science of human anatomy were born at exactly the same
moment in Italy around 1500. Anatomists needed artists to illustrate their books, and artists
needed anatomists to help them understand the body's structure, movement, and function. The
illustrations which they devised together mark the longest unbroken collaboration between
scientists and artists in western culture. These "maps of the body"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888846576
• ISBN13: 9780888846570
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: National Gallery of Canada
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 12.0" x 8.5"