Featured Event
How Rubens Taught Himself Anatomy--A Look at his Anatomical Drawings
The George Rosen Memorial Lecture
Anne-Marie Logan, Ph.D.
March 26, 2010, 5 p.m.Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, The Historical Library, all are welcome.
Sponsored by the Beaumont Medical Club
In 1987 eleven previously unknown anatomical drawings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) came up for sale at Christie’s in London (July 6, lots 57-67). This lecture will discuss how these and other Rubens drawings allow us to see how he learned and absorbed human anatomy.
For the lecture, books consulted by Rubens in his study of anatomy will be on view in the Historical Library.
Anne-Marie Logan is the author of Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings (Yale University Press, 2005) and Senior Research Curator for the exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001-2005. Her catalogue raisonné of Rubens' drawings is scheduled for publication by Brepols in Belgium in 2012 as part of the Pictura Nova series.
