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Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: art, anatomy, and printing in the Italian Renaissance

Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing: art, anatomy, and printing in the Italian Renaissance
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ISBN 9782503576237 (hbk.)
Title Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing : art, anatomy, and printing in the Italian Renaissance / edited by Rinaldo Fernando Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella
Publisher Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2018
Physical desc. xxiv, 332 pages ; illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Series Cursor mundi 33
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Andreas Vesalius and the Fabrica in the age of printing / Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella -- Part 1: Venice and Venetian printing. The culture of Venice in the age of Vesalius and the Aldine Press / Kenneth Bartlett -- Aldus Manutius and the world of Venetian printing / Angela Nuovo -- Aldus Manutius's unfulfilled dream: Galen's journey from Campo Sant'Agostin to western culture / Lorenzo Perilli -- Part 2: Paduan anatomy and the Fabrica. 'Fair Padua' as a centre of Renaissance anatomy / Andrew Cunningham -- Jan Steven van Calcar c.1515-c.1546, Vesalius's illustrator / Monique Kornell -- Vesalius's methods in the production of the Fabrica with emphasis on the neuroanatomy chapters / Rinaldo F. Canalis -- Part 3: Anatomy after the Fabrica: Padua and beyond. Gabrielle Falloppia: Vesalius's admirer and first critic / Rinaldo F. Canalis -- Anatomy in colour: Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente (c.1537-1619) / Raffaele de Caro -- Cut, copy, and English anatomy: Thomas Geminus and the reordering of Vesalius's canonical body / Melissa Lo -- Part 4: A twenty-first-century perspective. Vesal, 'for what he represents': Vesaliana in William Osler's collections / Hélène Cazes -- Habent sua fata libelli: the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine collection at UCLA / Victoria Steele -- Illuminating the science of life / Christine D. Young.
Person as subject Vesalius, Andreas -- 1514-1564 -- De humani corporis fabrica
Manuzio, Aldo -- 1449 or 50-1515
Subject Human anatomy -- Early works to 1800
Medical illustration -- History
Printing -- Italy -- Padua -- History
Printing -- Italy -- Venice -- History
Added name(s) Canalis, Rinaldo F.
Ciavolella, Massimo 1942-
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