Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Bernardino Genga – The artistic nature of an anatomist

    Alexandra MavrodiGeorge K. ParaskevasThessaloniki, Greece No other field of medicine is as strongly attached to art as anatomy. Because it relies so heavily on using images, anatomy has always greatly depended on the participation of the artists. Its anatomical atlases, influenced especially during the Renaissance by the prevailing fashions in art, were created not only…