21st Annual Biomedical Lecture Series to Discuss Italian Art and Links to Human Anatomy

Kevin Petti, Ph.D., professor in the departments of science and health at San Diego Miramar College will present the lecture, “Anatomy Italiana: From the Renaissance Dissection Theater to the Sistine Chapel,” at the 21st Annual Biomedical Lecture Series on Wednesday, February 12, at 3 p.m. in the East Parlor, St. Joseph Hall.

Petti’s lecture will describe the thousand-year story of anatomy as an academic discipline. From its inclusion into the curriculum of the earliest universities, to the construction of the first permanent dissection theaters, to its influence on the Renaissance masters, the history of anatomy is an interdisciplinary saga that evolved along the Italian peninsula.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Lakshmi Atchison, Ph.D., professor of biology and director of the biomedical lecture series at latchiso@chc.edu or call 215.248.7159.