GENERAL OVERVIEW (selected topics):

- Introduction: Representing Human Body

SECTION I.: From Renaissance to William Hogarth

- Between Plato and Ficino: philosophical origins of “figura serpentinata”

- Between Michelangelo and Lomazzo: (de)erotizing bodies

SECTION II.: From William Hogarth to hygienic imperatives

- Lomazzo’s influence on Hogarth

- Movement and eroticism in Hogarth’s “The Analysis of Beauty”

- Unexpected consequences of Hogarth’s mistakes: William Hogarth as the father of the “modern line”

- Hygienic discourse of the 18^th century: clean outlines of the healthy bodies

- Art Nouveau and its implications: “figura serpentinata” runs wild

SECTION III.: 20th and 21th Century Aftermaths

- “Cloud turn” in art: the demise of the line and the victory of the flesh

- Uncomfortable bodies: architectural drawing imperatives

- Fascist reactions: individual erotic wilderness vs. hollow social bodies

- Figura serpentinata and the contemporary anatomical imagination: spirituality held in check

- Between war and pornography: contemporary survivals of the renaissance concepts