Rosicrucian Beacon Magazine - 2012-09 - AMORC

y Brenda Andersenany CENTuRIES AGO, an unknownEgyptian artist carved on the wall of apyramid a simple depiction of a doctorperforming an operation. Today, operationscan be seen in films, television and the internet. You’ll beamazed what you can find on YouTube these days! We dofind however that throughout the ages, art and medicinehave been inseparable.Medicine is known as the ‘healing art’. Art on theother hand, has been referred to as ‘natural science’.It’s interesting to note that in medieval times, artistsbelonged to the same guilds as doctors and apothecaries(pharmacists.) Art meant ‘craft’ and there was nodistinction between them. Perhaps it was the fraternityand equality between the two that encouraged thetremendous interest that artists began to show in anatomyand in the illustrated manuscripts that doctors began touse in their treatises during the Renaissance.The Rosicrucian Beacon -- September 201241