Measuring the Bones: On Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Saluzzianus Skeleton

After turning over the sixteenth folio of the Saluzzianus Codex 148, a fast-paced and wide-ranging architectural treatise by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, a skeleton appears (plate 1 and plate 2). Scholars are mostly unfussed. Accustomed, as they are, to thinking of the Italian Renaissance as rising...

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Published in:Art history 2015-04, Vol.38 (2), p.346-363
Main Author: Lugli, Emanuele
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomy & physiology
Art history
Bones
Skeletal system
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Summary:After turning over the sixteenth folio of the Saluzzianus Codex 148, a fast-paced and wide-ranging architectural treatise by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, a skeleton appears (plate 1 and plate 2). Scholars are mostly unfussed. Accustomed, as they are, to thinking of the Italian Renaissance as rising from the corpse of Masaccio's Trinity to falling with Michelangelo's slaves, they simply take Martini's bones as further proof of Tuscan artists' vivisection of the real.
ISSN:0141-6790
1467-8365
DOI:10.1111/1467-8365.12153