Anatomy & art : a lecture delivered before the Society of Arts and Crafts of Carlisle, September 27th, 1907 / by Henry A. Lediard.

  • Lediard, H. A. (Henry Ambrose), 1847-1932.
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[1907]
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Credit: Anatomy & art : a lecture delivered before the Society of Arts and Crafts of Carlisle, September 27th, 1907 / by Henry A. Lediard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Literature and Art. MORBID SUBJECTS AVOIDED BY ARTISTS. hogarth’s expression—his story caricatures. All art critics remark upon Hogarth’s work, work which stands absolutely alone in this or any other country. His works are true history in a special sense. Every feature, limb, figure, group, is instinct with life and motion. The anatomy of expression finds a complete home in Hogarth’s faces. The muscles distort the mouth with laughter, and knit the brow, pucker the cheeks, or the eyes are made to squint according to the story his canvas is showing. Hogarth did not attempt the nude figure, but he was intimately acquainted with the anatomy of expression, not only of the face but of the whole body. Monumental Skeletons. ROUBILLAC BERNINI. Lady Elizabeth Nightingale Monument. Died, 1731—Monument set up, 1761. In this monument, well-known to all visitors at Westminster Abbey, Death is represented in a skeleton form, aiming his dart at the lady. Of course this is a poetic and theatrical design. The various bones of the skull and fingers are wonderfully done, but how could bones hold anything without muscles ? So that the monument gives a shudder to an anatomist.
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