Word: gymnasia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dissection in Secret. Curator A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor chose 100-odd prints and paintings calculated to fascinate both students and medical men. Until Pollaiuolo, the only artists who seriously studied anatomy were the Greeks. Since dissection was forbidden by their religion, they carefully watched athletes in the gymnasia. Medieval art was less concerned with reproducing correct anatomical detail than with expressing the subject's inner light. Dissection was still frowned upon in those days (though doctors often carried it on in secret...
...Miller] praises the American college system, in which the student gets a smattering of a great many subjects. He fails to realize that the European gets a thorough grounding in general education in the elementary schools and in the so-called secondary schools (Gymnasia and lycées); the instruction in the latter is more than an equivalent of our colleges. European universities are really graduate schools...