{"id":1218,"date":"2014-09-22T06:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dittrickmuseumblog.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2017-10-26T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:30:13","slug":"nyam-hosts-vesalius-500-art-and-anatomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/2014\/09\/22\/nyam-hosts-vesalius-500-art-and-anatomy\/","title":{"rendered":"NYAM hosts Vesalius 500: Art and Anatomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2014\/09\/25104716\/1018-chm_festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1219\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2014\/09\/25104716\/1018-chm_festival.jpg\" alt=\"Web\" width=\"254\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a>This October, the New York Academy of Medicine will host <strong>Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500<\/strong>, Guest curated by artist and anatomist Riva Lehrer<\/p>\n<p>On October 18, the NYAM&#8217;s second-annual Festival for Medical History and the Arts, \u201cArt, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500\u2033 will celebrate the 500th birthday of anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Our own Brandy Schillace, research associate and guest curator for the Dittrick, will be one of the hosted speakers! Click here for the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyamcenterforhistory.org\/vesalius-500\/schedule-for-art-anatomy-and-the-body-vesalius-500\/\">full schedule<\/a>&#8211;and see below for a short description.<\/p>\n<p>Vesalius\u2019 groundbreaking De humani corporis fabrica (The Fabric of the Human Body) of 1543 is a key Renaissance text, one that profoundly changed medical training, anatomical knowledge, and artistic representations of the body, an influence that has persisted over the centuries. The Festival is one of a global series of celebrations of his legacy, and a day-long event will explore the intersection of anatomy and the arts with a vibrant roster of performers and presenters, including Heidi Latsky\u2019s \u201cGIMP\u201d Dance Project; the comics artists of Graphic Medicine; Sander Gilman on posture controlling the unruly body; Alice Dreger on inventing the medical photograph; Bill Hayes on researching hidden histories of medicine; Steven Assael, Ann Fox and Chun-shan (Sandie) Yi on anatomy in contemporary art; Chase Joynt\u2019s Resisterectomy, a meditation on surgery and gender; Brandy Schillace on ambivalent depictions of female anatomy in the 18th century; Lisa Rosner on famous body snatchers Burke and Hare; the art of anatomical atlases with Michael Sappol; medical 3D printing demos by ProofX; anatomical painting directly on skin with Kriota Willberg; Daniel Garrison on translating Vesalius for modern audiences; Jeff Levine and Michael Nevins on revisiting The Fabrica Frontispiece; and many more!<\/p>\n<p>To join this excellent event, register<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyam.org\/events\/2014\/2014-10-18.html\"> here<\/a> or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyamcenterforhistory.org\/vesalius-500\/\">NYAM blog<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2014\/09\/25104716\/1018-chm_festival.jpg\"><\/a>This October, the New York Academy of Medicine will host <strong>Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500<\/strong>, Guest curated by artist and anatomist Riva Lehrer<\/p>\n<p>On October 18, the NYAM&#8217;s second-annual Festival for Medical History and the Arts, \u201cArt, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500\u2033 will celebrate the 500th birthday of anatomist Andreas Vesalius. Our own Brandy Schillace, research associate and guest curator for the Dittrick, will be one of the hosted speakers! Click here for the <a href=\"http:\/\/nyamcenterforhistory.org\/vesalius-500\/schedule-for-art-anatomy-and-the-body-vesalius-500\/\">full schedule<\/a>&#8211;and see below for a short description.<\/p>\n<p>Vesalius\u2019 groundbreaking De humani corporis fabrica (The Fabric of the Human Body) of 1543 is a key Renaissance text,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/2014\/09\/22\/nyam-hosts-vesalius-500-art-and-anatomy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NYAM hosts Vesalius 500: Art and Anatomy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[429,111,131,129,101],"tags":[19,155,140,254,255,219],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2014\/09\/25104716\/1018-chm_festival.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/dittrick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}