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Anatomists and the Stolen Statues: Stories of Science, Art, and Religion

April 15, 2019, 7:00 PM

Free

In 1807 the London surgeon and anatomist Charles Bell was called by his friend Thomas Bruce, the Earl of Elgin, to view the friezes of the Parthenon, recently brought to London, having been taken from their original home in Greece. Bell was asked to assess the statues as an anatomist and to analyze their representations of the human form. Why would an anatomist participate in such an activity? The answer, as it turns out, has a great deal to do with the ways in which science, art, and religion were fundamentally related to each other. Carin Berkowitz is the executive director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities and author of Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform. She is also co-editor of Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America and author of several articles on the uses of images and objects in anatomy.

Sponsored by the Center for the Arts and Humanities.

Details

Date:
April 15, 2019
Time:
7:00 PM
Cost:
Free

Organizer

Megan Fossa
Phone
859-4165
Email
mefossa@colby.edu

Other

Series
Presence of the Past Lecture

Venue

Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College
Mayflower Hill Drive
Waterville, ME
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