En-Gendering the Discourse of Anatomy in Aurel Vlad’s Sculpture The Anatomy Class/The Accident

This study places the title artefact within a European tradition of anatomical representation, revealed through examples and intricate comparisons to famous paintings and title pages of anatomy books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thus, Mihaela Irimia’s commitment to cultural studies reverberates through the interpretation of this Romanian artist’s sculpture in light of its cultural heritage, with the re-gendering of the praelector seen as both a response and a challenge to its artistic predecessors.