Imagining the Extraordinary: The Inspired

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Channel: Library of Congress · 2018 · Education

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In a symposium on scientific illustration from the Renaissance to the digital age, historians specializing in the scientific illustrations of the Renaissance with contemporary scientists, technologists and artists to explore the longstanding relationship between science and illustration. On day two, the morning panel focused on "the inspired." 

Speaker Biography: Lilla Vekerdy is head of special collections at Smithsonian Libraries. 

Speaker Biography: Catherine Newell is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Miami and Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality at the Library of Congress. 

Speaker Biography: Greg Dunn is an artist and neuroscientist. 

For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8392

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