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The Body in Western Art American Friends of Augustine College

The Body in Western Art American Friends of Augustine College. Gary Swanson, M.D Robert Blume , M.D. Ross Betts, M.D. Egyptian Presentation. Analytic body - assemblage of parts each seen in their most typical presentation (eye and torso front on; profile nose, head, legs, etc.) .

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The Body in Western Art American Friends of Augustine College

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  1. The Body in Western ArtAmerican Friends of Augustine College Gary Swanson, M.D Robert Blume, M.D. Ross Betts, M.D.

  2. Egyptian Presentation Analytic body - assemblage of parts each seen in their most typical presentation (eye and torso front on; profile nose, head, legs, etc.) 

  3. Greek Poseidon 5th Century B.C.

  4. Raice Warrior, 5th century B.C. Greek

  5. Venus De Milo-100-200 B.C.

  6. The Hellenistic Greek dying Gaul - suffering, actual dying, would not have been depicted by the ancient Greeks

  7. ROMAN_Emperor Trebonianus Gallus found in Rome_251-253 AD_ The Romans began to show people as they are, never mind the ideal

  8. Covered body of Eve -- Romanesque Period 1120 A.D

  9. Strasburg Cathedral !3th Century AD Note that Clothing obscures bodily contour

  10. Donatello 1462 AD Mary Magdalene Wretchedness and penitence (body as, perhaps, an image of the soul)

  11. Mantegna 1490 AD Lamentation Over the Dead Christ Pathos expressed; medieval elements of form persist

  12. Holbein-The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521)

  13. Grunewald - Altarpiece 1515

  14. Leonardo Vitruvian Man Influence of mathematics on bodily presentation

  15. Bernini 1622 Apollo and Daphne

  16. Bernini 1622 Close up Daphne

  17. Canova 1804 Perseus with Head of Medusa Back to the Future?

  18. Eakins- The Crucifixion (1880)

  19. Eakins- Boy in Artelier

  20. Mary Cassatt 1844-1926

  21. Van Gogh 1885 Skull of Skeleton With Burning Cigarette

  22. Nude Descending a Staircase Duchamp 1926 Body as Mechanism

  23. Picasso 1907 Desmoiselles d’Avignon Fracturing and dislocation of the Body

  24. Kahn –Germany 1920s Body as machine

  25. Bacon 1969 Study of a Nude with a figure in a Mirror

  26. Lucien Freud 1987 Girl on a Bed

  27. Medical TopicsRembrandt The Anatomy Lesson

  28. Medical TopicsThomas Eakins-The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic

  29. Medical TopicsEdvard Munch (1902)-Self Portrait on the Operating Table

  30. Bodies: The Exhibition

  31. Ron Mueck

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