Cours de Zoonomie considérée dans ses rapports avec les Arts de l'Homme 1re Partie, Horace Vernet

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1789–1863
Cours de Zoonomie considérée dans ses rapports avec les Arts de l'Homme 1re Partie, 1820
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: wove paper; lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 130 x 173 mm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 11 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 2010.0037
Not on display

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Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Although interdisciplinary artists and scholars today seek to transcend the boundaries between art and science, these divisions can still seem rigid and absolute. Yet many early anatomical illustrations hint at the complex ways philosophy, religion, art, and emerging scientific disciplines informed one another in the generation of new knowledge about the human body, demonstrating that disciplinary silos are neither natural nor fixed. This lithograph invites its recipient to attend a course on zoonomy—the scientific study of animal life—in relation to the
arts, revealing links between two seemingly disparate topics.

Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body

Although interdisciplinary artists and scholars today seek to transcend the boundaries between art and science, these divisions can still seem rigid and absolute. Yet many early anatomical illustrations hint at the complex ways philosophy, religion, art, and emerging scientific disciplines informed one another in the generation of new knowledge about the human body, demonstrating that disciplinary silos are neither natural nor fixed. This lithograph invites its recipient to attend a course on zoonomy—the scientific study of animal life—in relation to the
arts, revealing links between two seemingly disparate topics.

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