[The anatomy of plastic arts nowadays]

The main subject of the present paper is to illustrate some aspects of the relation between art and medicine in early modern Europe. The aim of this research is to show how the human body was perceived by the people at that time, and what changes in presentation of the human body appeared during this long period of time and what factors evoked them. The basic sources for this research are the popular and medical ilustrations which were the basis of medical knowledge in early modern Europe and influenced the consciousness and intellectual development of the widest circles of readers. At the beginning the author delt with the issue of the image of the female body in the discourse of medicine and science. Than she tried to show to what extant the way human body was presented in arts was corelated with the development in medicine and focuses on different ways of presenting the human body from the middle ages to the end of 18th century.