After a busy week with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine classes, Brooke Quinton and Yiran Wang found that painting and drawing together were good ways to relax on the weekends.

On May 12, 1543, Jakob Karrer von Gebweiler was publicly beheaded for crimes committed in Basel, Switzerland. His corpse was turned over to a brilliant young Flemish doctor, Andreas Vesalius, who ...

Part I: Anatomical models in artistic training: sculpted, living, and dissected. Anatomy in the drawing room at Felix Meritis Maatschappij in Amsterdam: between skin and bones, theory and practice / ...

SOME 230 years after the body of a hanged highway robber was turned into a sculpture, an intriguing pair of exhibitions aim to shed light on his identity and the history of anatomical art, discovers ...

“. . . It is known vaguely, if at all, as an old volume that contains some possibly distressing illustrations of skeletons and muscles.” Thus complains the Metropolitan Museum’s scholarly Curator of ...

"Conceived, edited, and designed by Quarto Publishing plc, an imprint of The Quarto Group"--Title page verso NH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter ...

The class began playfully enough, with instructor Jennifer Hellier kneading a ball of light brown clay and rolling it between the palms of her hands. But then, as she and four college students ...