RENAISSANCE DISSECTION, LITERATURE AND ART
RENAISSANCE DISSECTION, LITERATURE AND ART

Summary/Abstract: Renaissance is, historically speaking, the period of passage from the Middle Ages-in which human knowledge did not have the power to traverse the mists of time- towards the Enlightenment that opens the dawn of the modern age. The country which first felt the need for change was Italy. From here, gradually, the wind of change encompasses entire Europe but it was to be an uneven propagation, which had its own characteristics depending on the specific of each state and each culture. From an economic point of view, the financing power begins to be, between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, taken over by a new emerging class, that of the bourgeoisie. And politically speaking, it is the period in which nation states begin to take shape, understanding that only a centralized and homogeneous form of organization can save nations from dissolution. But what is to be treated in this article is related to art, medicine-more precisely anatomy and the development of these two areas of knowledge in the Renaissance context. The ontogenesis has been a passion of man from ancient times. The first information about the structure of the human body dates back to antiquity. Grafting the new wave of culture on Greco-Roman models must mean taking over a “mythological themes in art.”

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