{"id":1058,"date":"2016-11-14T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T05:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:30:33","slug":"italian-studies-as-disciplinary-interface-art-science-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2016\/11\/14\/italian-studies-as-disciplinary-interface-art-science-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Studies as Disciplinary Interface: Art, Science, and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local folks and students from the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, the Department of Art, and the Italian Studies program attended Dr. Kevin Petti’s\u00a0engaging and rich lecture on the nexus between art and anatomy during\u00a0the Italian Renaissance.<\/p>\n

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Italy\u2019s medieval universities established the study of human anatomy for physicians. To heighten their art, Renaissance masters clandestinely examined anatomy through human dissection. The profound connection between art and science is best demonstrated by the genius of Michelangelo. Indeed, the wooden crucifix he carved in gratitude for secret access to corpses from a convent\u2019s hospital still hangs in the Basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence. The\u00a0talk examined the nexus between art and science, and the history of anatomy education in the university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Local folks and students from the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, the Department of Art, and the Italian Studies program attended Dr. Kevin Petti’s\u00a0engaging and rich lecture on the nexus between art and anatomy during\u00a0the Italian Renaissance. Italy\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}