Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
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This exhibition explores our ongoing curiosity of the human body through historic and contemporary works of art that expose the diverse ways that people have attempted to understand the human body in its many physiological, psychological, and symbolic dimensions.
Works of art

reprinted 1748

reprinted 1748

Robert Hooke (1635–1703)
1667 (second reprinting of first edition)

Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf Ibn Ilyās (1380–1422)
1600s (original 1400s)

William Cowper (circa 1666–1709)
1750 (original 1698)

Franciscus Francisci and Johannes Criegher; Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
1568 (original 1543)

Melania Mazinyani
1988–1996

2012

2020

2021

2018

2018

2018

2017

2017

2018

2020

2020

2017

August 1984

Horace Vernet (1789–1863)
1820

1965

1969

1987

Lucas Kilian (1579–1637); Johann Remmelin (1583–1632); Stephan Michelspacher (active 1613–1619)
1613

unrecorded Ibibio artist
early-mid 1900s

unrecorded Oyo artist
early-mid 1900s

2020

2020

late 1500s–early 1600s, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

possibly 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)

circa 1827–1830, Edo period (1600–1868)

2020

1982

Athena Tacha (born 1936)
1992

2017

2017

2017

2017

unrecorded Plains artist
circa 1890

unrecorded Ibibio artist
early 1900s–1967

unrecorded Hopi artist
late 1800s–1999

2006

November 4, 1981

Jane Bunker (born 1945)
2005

2014

Gina Westergard (born 1962)
2005

Ruth Cuthand (born 1953)
2018

1914–1918