{"id":57,"date":"2013-01-13T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T23:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bi265-humananatomyatcolby\/?p=57"},"modified":"2015-02-25T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T15:57:15","slug":"art-and-anatomy-field-trip-to-bowdoin-college-art-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/bi265-humananatomyatcolby\/2013\/01\/13\/art-and-anatomy-field-trip-to-bowdoin-college-art-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Anatomy Field Trip to Bowdoin College Art Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past Thursday our Human Anatomy and Physiology class was given an opportunity to experience and learn anatomy through the artwork of the Bowdoin College Art Museum.\u00a0 The works of art that we examined presented various anatomical features of the human body.\u00a0 Carefully analyzing each piece, it was incredibly intriguing to find that so many pieces of art created by various ancient artists, revealed and glorified various parts of the human body.<\/p>\n

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One of the paintings, Rome (The Art Idea)<\/i> by Elihu Vedder, displayed the Sartorius muscle and the gracilis muscle in a depiction of a man kneeling down in pain.\u00a0 This man not only exhibited a great depiction of these two muscles, but also represented wisdom, or \u201csapienza.\u201d\u00a0 This is evident because the word \u201csapienza\u201d is displayed beneath the man.\u00a0 Perhaps this idea of wisdom representing anatomical features reveals the importance of studying the body\u2019s science in Ancient Rome.<\/p>\n

Roma<\/a><\/p>\n

Another piece, St. Jerome in the Wilderness<\/i> by Biagio d’Antonio da Firenze, depicts St. Jerome giving himself heart surgery.\u00a0 In addition to this act, he also reveals the sternocleidomastoid muscle on his neck as he looks to heaven.\u00a0 It seems as though he is creating an act of sacrifice for the gods.\u00a0 Another aspect of this painting is the inaccurate depiction of his body, almost revealing a feminine look.\u00a0 We learned that this feminine aspect is most likely a result of the time period of the piece being the fifteenth century and thus, showing male privates was considered inappropriate in artwork.<\/p>\n

St. Jerome in the Wilderness<\/a><\/p>\n

This visit not only helped our class understand and learn the body parts to a fuller extent but it also added the aspect of history and its relation to the study of human anatomy.\u00a0 After having the opportunity to examine the various pieces of art, it became clear that from the art of Ancient Rome to the art of the renaissance and classical period, human anatomy has been of importance and glorified in all forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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