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Bodies in ecstasy, bodies in tortuous pain, bodies devoid of life
and bodies rising to the afterlife: the subject of the human is
central to the work Tintoretto (1519-94) accomplished at the Scuola
Grande di San Marco, home to the monumental library and medical
museum of Venice's Ospedale Civile, and thus a fitting backdrop to
Art, Faith and Medicine in Tintoretto's Venice, a volume that
explores the representation of the human body in artistic and
medical traditions in an effort to understand the role of idealized
and nonidealized bodies in Renaissance culture. This book draws on
archival documents, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, prints,
medals, drawings and paintings to examine the interconnection
between art and medicine, anatomical studies and devotional belief.
Special topics such as medical care for the monks of the Scuola
further enliven this central theme.
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