History of Italian Renaissance Art

'Psychosurgery' in renaissance art.

Hieronymus Bosch and other early Renaissance artists depicted 'stone operations' in which stones were supposedly surgically removed from the head as a treatment for mental illness. These works have usually been interpreted either as portraying a contemporary practice of medical charlatans or as an allegory of human folly, rather than a real event. As trepanation for head injury and mental disea...

Science in the Art of the Italian Renaissance I : Ghiberti ' s Gates of

AS with the works of a number of Italian Renaissance artists, Lorenzo Ghiberti's art contained scientific elements. In his case both his training as a goldsmith, which introduced him to concepts of mineralogy, and his knowledge and use of techniques in the realm of the science of optics demonstrated a melding of art and science. Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise was among the first works of the peri...

Visceral Leishmaniasis during Italian Renaissance, 1522–1562

spread of the proven sandfl y vector Ph. (Laroussius) perniciosus and the competent sandfl y vector Ph. (Transphlebotomus) mascittii into Germany (5). It has been hypothesized that sandfl ies have always been sporadically present in central Europe, but that climate change will lead to extended distribution (10). It is tempting to assume that climate change resulted in cutaneous leishmaniasis at...

Perceptions of beauty in Renaissance art.

The Renaissance was a cultural revolution that spread from Florence, in 1400, throughout Italy and into the rest of Europe. Its impetus was the philosophy of Humanism, which strove to resurrect and emulate the literature and art of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Artists had previously been limited to formulaic religious iconography. They now began to reproduce descriptions of classical painting...

The Art of Renaissance and Baroque Eras