During the Renaissance a series of significant shifts in our understanding of the human body took place. Increasing knowledge ...

The Renaissance was a period in history that ... Some of these old texts provided ideas about the working of the human body and methods of diagnosing illness that were new to European doctors.

Vesalius is best known for his book On the Fabric of the Human Body, published in 1543. This was an extremely detailed and accurate guide for doctors on how the human body worked. It contained ...

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California 'Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human is a powerful, erudite, and elegant contribution to our knowledge of the interweaving of ...

Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty is a ... particularly his fascination with mortality, religion, and the human body. “Michelangelo’s ‘David’ is still one of the most visited works ...