ART AND SCIENCE: MANIFEST COMPLEMENTARITY TO REPRESENT UNPUBLISHED ANATOMICAL FINDINGS IN BEHEADED SCULPTURE OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, BY GASPAR NÚÑEZ DELGADO

Abstract

The symbiosis between Arts and Science has been a constant in Humanity, but it is not until the Renaissance that reaches its height. However, the apparent applicability of anatomical knowledge to the completion of works of art has been poorly described. Our objective was to perform an iconographic and anatomical study of Saint John the Baptist beheaded sculpture, by Gaspar Núñez Delgado, located at the Fine Arts Museum in Seville –using the early baroque realism of the author– and thus, we have figured out the expressive and anatomical details shown in it, revealing the existence of a facial skin and other thyroid tumor far undescribed.