THE ART AND SPACE OF ANATOMY : ORIGINS, HISTORY AND FUNCTIONS OF ANATOMICAL THEATRES
CONFERENCE
Bologna, November 17 – 18, 2023
PROGRAMME
NOVEMBER 17th
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09:00-10:00 AM
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Registration of participants
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Welcome and Greetings from the authorities (THESA - THEatre Science Anatomy; Italian Society for the History of Medicine; Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology; Medical and Surgical Society of Bologna)
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10:00-12:30 AM
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SESSION I: The Architecture of Anatomy Theatres (Part 1)
Moderator: Nicolò Nicoli Aldini (University of Verona)
Sara Patuzzo, Andrea Franzoni, Nicolò Nicoli Aldini (University of Verona): Sulle tracce dell’antico teatro anatomico di Verona. Documenti e tavole rinvenute lungo il cammino
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Elena Corradini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): I 350 anni di vita del Teatro Anatomico dell’Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia: dalla costruzione alla valorizzazione
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Nicoletta Piazza (Independent Researcher): Il Teatro Chirurgico della nuova Clinica Chirurgica, edificata nel 1913: struttura e allestimento della prima moderna sala operatoria di Parma
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Gianfranco Natale (University of Pisa): I teatri anatomici di Pisa
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Davide Orsini (University of Siena), Mariano Martini (University of Genoa): I teatri anatomici senesi. I luoghi che la Scuola medica ha utilizzato in oltre sei secoli per “istruire i giovani e fare in modo che acquistassero la più perfetta cognizione della struttura del corpo umano”
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Davide Orsini (University of Siena), Mariano Martini (University of Genoa), Carla Garbarino (University of Siena), Paolo Mazzarello (University of Pavia): Il “Regio Teatro Anatomico di Genova” e il progetto di Celestino Foppiani
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Flavio Stocco (IRCCS San Gallicano Institute): Sincretismo tra arte e medicina: l’esempio del teatro anatomico dell’ospedale San Gallicano di Roma
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Andrea Antonucci (Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome), Flavio Stocco (IRCCS San Gallicano Institute): Il sapere anatomico nell’ospedale San Giacomo in Augusta di Roma: il ruolo del teatro anatomico tra mondo sanitario e accademico
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Francesco Maria Galassi (FAPAB, University of Lodz), Elena Varotto (FAPAB, Flinders University), Francesca Arena (FAPAB), Emanuele Torrisi (FAPAB), Antonello Ciccarelli (University of Rome “Foro Italico”), Samanta Taurone (University of Rome “Foro Italico”), Marco Artico (Sapienza University of Rome): Il teatro anatomico di Modica
Arturo Armone Caruso (AIAS of Afragola): Un teatro anatomico scomparso e la sua collezione
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12:30 AM-1:00 PM
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Guided tour of the anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio (Piazza Galvani 1)
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1:00-2:00 PM
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Lunch on site
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2:00-3:00 PM
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OPENING: Raffaele De Caro (University of Padua): Il teatro anatomico a Padova: da Acquapendente ad oggi
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PANEL: Alessandro Nanni Costa (Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital), Sara Patuzzo (University of Verona): Hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae
Moderator: Emanuele Armocida (University of Parma)
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3:00-4:50 PM
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SESSION II: History and evolution of anatomical dissection
Stefano Ratti (Main speaker - University of Bologna): La dissezione dello spazio e dell’arte in anatomia: analisi dell’interdisciplinarietà e della nona arte in campo anatomico
Moderator: Gianfranco Natale (University of Pisa)
Luigi Papi (University of Pisa): Le origini della dissezione anatomica: dall’Antichità al Medioevo
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Gaspare Baggieri (MelAMi, Arte Scienza e Cultura Europea, Rome), Luigi Galieti (Accademia di Storia dell'Arte Sanitaria Rome), Santa Lamattina (Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome): Sulle anatomie “all’aperto e al pubblico”, dell’Ospedale della Consolazione
Veronica Papa (University of Naples, FAPAB), Mauro Vaccarezza (Curtin University, University of Ferrara), Elena Varotto (Flinders University), Michele Papa (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”), Francesco M. Galassi (FAPAB, University of Lodz): Museums, Ceroplasty, and Anatomical Theaters in modern Naples
Veronica Papa (University of Naples, FAPAB), Elena Varotto (FAPAB, Flinders University), Francesco M. Galassi (FAPAB, University of Lodz), Mauro Vaccarezza (Curtin University, University of Ferrara), Valeria Bertagnolo (University of Ferrara): From The Anatomy Theatre of University of Ferrara to the Modern Digital Anatomy “Theatres” of Today: Evolution of Anatomy Teaching and Learning
R. Allen Shotwell (Ivy Tech Community College): “Teste sensu” Berengario da Carpi and the Role of Dissection in Studying Anatomy
Tricia Close-Koenig (Université de Strasbourg): From anatomy to pathological anatomy. Mobilizing bodies and materials in the anatomy theatre, Strasbourg, 16th to 21st century
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05:00-07:00 PM
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SESSION III: Anatomy between Social and Cultural Aspects
Leslie Malland (Main Speaker - Southern University A&M): Cultural Intersections in the Spaces of Anatomy Theatres
Chiara Mascardi (Main Speaker - Independent researcher): Anatomical theatres and Theatre: an interdisciplinary history
Moderator: Chiara Mascardi
Roberto Cuppone (University of Genoa): Thou, map of woe
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Jens Kraushaar (Bauhaus University Weimar): The Discussion of the One-sex Model by the Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius
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Giovan Battista Ivan Polichetti (Department of Mental Health and Pathological Addictions of AUSL Romagna): La localizzazione dell’anima (entusiasmi e disillusioni nella ricerca della mente anatomica)
Paolo Gerbaldo (University of Turin): Guardando i teatri anatomici in Italia e in Germania, Uno strumento per la diffusione del sapere nelle osservazioni di viaggio di due medici piemontesi: Giovanni Battista Balbis e Bernardino Bertini
Massimo Aliverti (University of Insubria): Sul discorso tenuto da Niels Stensen nel 1673 in occasione della riapertura del teatro anatomico di Copenaghen
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NOVEMBER 18th
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09:00-10:25 AM
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SESSION IV: Theatre as a museum space, perspectives and case studies
Lucas Evers (Main Speaker - Waag's Open Wetlab and Make programme): The dissecting dissected
Chiara Ianeselli (Main Speaker - Independent Researcher): Past, Present and Future of Anatomy Theatres
Moderator: Chiara Ianeselli
Tanja Kilzer (University of Trier): The theatrum anatomicum of the University of Bonn (Germany) - History, Architecture and its Conversion into an Academic Art Museum
Marion Maria Ruisinger (Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum): The Anatomical Theatre of the University of Bavaria in Ingolstadt. A story of rise, decline and re-invention (1723 – 2023)
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Andrea Pacini (Independent Researcher): Il teatro anatomico “La Vida” di Venezia tra turistificazione e preservazione della memoria scientifica
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10:30-01:30 PM
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SESSION V: Artists and Theaters of Anatomy
Thomas Schnalke (Main Speaker - Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité): Directing Views. The anatomical theatre and the depiction of the human body
Frank IJpma (Main Speaker - University Medical Center Groningen): Attending an anatomy lesson of the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons
Moderator: Thomas Schnalke
Sabernig Katharina (University of Applied Arts Vienna): Performing Knitted Anatomy
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Di Fan (University of Strasbourg): From Anatomists to Artists, from Dissections to Engravings: Unravelling the Impact of Andreas Vesalius’s Fabrica on Odoardo Fialetti Muscle-Men Drawings
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Mariana de Figueiredo Sousa, Alice Nogueira Alves, Lia Lucas Neto (University of Lisbon): The students of Medicine and Fine Arts at Lisbon's Anatomical Theatres and the two anatomical drawing collections of the University of Lisbon
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Dora Reglodi, Karina Horgas, Emese Uzelman, Inez Bosnyak, Liliana Lucas, Marta Nyilas (University of Pecs): Modern aspects of an old tradition: connection between anatomy and art
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Charlotte Dewarumez-Minot (University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès): Debates around the Artistic Dimension of Anatomical Illustrations in the Nineteenth Century
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Maximilian Geiger (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): The contribution of nature in the 16th century to the genesis of anatomical knowledge and its representation
Michele Amedei (University of Pisa): Artistic training and scientific knowledge: the primacy of Rome in the study of the ‘fabrica umana’ for French and Italian artists in the second half of the 18th century
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Paola Saccheri, Luciana Travan (University of Udine): Donatello e l’anatomia
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Ilaria Bianchi (University of Bologna): Al servizio della scienza: Anna Morandi Manzolini e i ceroplasti bolognesi del Settecento
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01:30-02:30 PM
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Lunch on site
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02:30-06:45 PM
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SESSION VI: The Architecture of Anatomy Theatres (Part 2)
Andrea Carlino (Main speaker - University of Geneva) Andrea Vesalio, Daniele Barbaro and the Architects
Jens-Oliver Kempf (Main speaker - Independent Researcher): Built to learn about life
Moderator: Luca Borghi / Chiara Mascardi
Christine Beese (Freie Universität Berlin): On Swedish Nature. Olaus Rudbeck and the Uppsala Anatomical Theatre of 1662
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Letizia Capriotti, Pasquale Siciliano, Luca Borghi (Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome): Invisibili presenza. Usi e ‘abusi’ dei teatri anatomici nell’antico palazzo della Sapienza a Roma
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Anne Sophie Refskou, Edward Payne, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (Aarhus University): The Anatomical Theater as an Affective, Investigative and Inter-relational Space. On The Anatomical Theater in Copenhagen, 1644, a possible Reconstruction and Comparative Perspectives
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Giovanni Cipriani (University of Florence): The anatomical theatre of Ceppo Hospital in Pistoia
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Beatrice Messeri (Ministry of Culture): “Nil tam difficile quin quaerendo investigari possit”. La meravigliosa esperienza dello studio del corpo umano e il teatro anatomico dopo la riscoperta del XV secolo e la diffusione nei secoli successivi. L’esempio del teatro anatomico del Ceppo
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Giancarla Malerba, Cristina Cilli, Giacomo Giacobini (University of Turin): Il Palazzo degli Istituti anatomici dell’Università di Torino: il Teatro anatomico e il Museo
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Gaspare Baggieri (MelAMi, Arte Scienza e Cultura Europea, Rome), Luca Borghi, Santa Lamattina (Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome): Teatro anatomico del Santo Spirito in Saxia
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Ester Maria Bernardi, Lucio Fregonese, Maria Carla Garbarino (University of Pavia), Mariano Martini (University of Genoa), Paolo Mazzarello (University of Pavia), Marcello Trucas (University of Cagliari): Il teatro anatomico di Pavia tra chirurgia e medicina
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Stefano Zaggia, Andrea Giordano, Rachele Bernardello (University of Padua): Il Teatro Anatomico antico dell’Università di Padova: ragioni costruttive, architettura e restituzione della concezione geometrica
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Alberto Zanatta, Giovanni Magno, Fabio Zampieri (University of Padua): L’eredità padovana del Teatro anatomico di Fabrici
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Giovanni Magno (University of Padua), Cat Irving (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh), Fabio Zampieri, Alberto Zanatta (University of Padua): Anatomical Theatres of Edinburgh: a connection between Italy and Scotland
Pier Luigi Longhin (UO Internal Medicine Piove di Sacco Hospital): Note storiche sul teatro anatomico di Venezia
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Luca Ventura, Carlo Alicandri-Ciufelli, Guido Macchiarelli, Ferdinando di Orio (Centro Abruzzese dell’Accademia di Storia dell’Arte Sanitaria): I teatri anatomici che non c’erano. Il difficile percorso formativo del medico nelle realtà prive di strutture adeguate: l’Abruzzo
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Valeria Bertagnolo, Federica Brugnoli, Silvia Grassilli (University of Ferrara), Mauro Vaccarezza (Curtin University, University of Ferrara), Marco Bresadola (University of Ferrara), Veronica Papa (University of Naples, FAPAB): Il Teatro Anatomico di Ferrara: dalla svolta “ospedaliera” al recente restauro, la storia di uno dei grandi simboli della tradizione universitaria ferrarese