{"id":6567,"date":"2025-01-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:14:47","slug":"drawing-blood-anatomical-depictions-of-the-heart-exhibit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6567","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Blood: Anatomical Depictions of the Heart Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6568\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Feigel_hero_image_post.jpg\" alt=\"Hand drawn image of a torso depicting the heart. \" width=\"449\" height=\"600\" \/>February is American Heart Month. To honor this most central organ, the HSHSL has installed an exhibit in the Weise Gallery highlighting four centuries of anatomical drawings of the heart from the HSHSL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hshsl\/resources\/historical\/\">Historical Collections<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first understanding of the heart can be traced back to 3500 B.C. with the ancient Egyptians. For millennia the beliefs around the heart circled around religion and spirituality rather than science. This changed around 460 B.C. with Hippocrates and the first heart anatomy text, \u201cOn the Heart.\u201d In 300 B.C. human dissection began to be acceptable and anatomists could thus learn more about the anatomy of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo Da Vinci in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> Century is often credited with the first anatomical drawing of the heart. Many of his sketches and writings about the organ remain true today \u2013 over 500 years later. Da Vinci, while not the first to claim the heart as a muscle, cemented it as a muscle. He was the first to describe the four chambers of the heart with two ventricles and two atria. In the seventeenth century, William Harvey was the first to describe the circulation system.<\/p>\n<p>Major advances were made in the understanding of the heart\u2019s function and anatomy during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century. Anatomists began to better understand the function of the heart and the circulatory system as a whole. These men laid the foundation of today\u2019s understanding of the heart.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit in the Weise Gallery provides a visual backdrop for the changes in understanding of the functions and anatomy of this vital organ outlined in this brief history. The exhibit highlights anatomists from six countries and volumes dating from 1641 to 1954. The prints are both stunning from an artistic sense and influential in medicine and science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is American Heart Month. To honor this most central organ, the HSHSL has installed an exhibit in the Weise Gallery highlighting four centuries of anatomical drawings of the heart from the HSHSL\u2019s Historical Collections. \u00a0 The first understanding of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=6567\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,94],"tags":[217,562,31,775],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibits","category-historical-collections","tag-american-heart-month","tag-anatomical-drawings","tag-anatomy","tag-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6570,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}