Istomondo is the calendar designed by the Department of Histology, Embryology and Applied Biology to support research.
Help support research by buying the full-colour size 30X40 cm calendar.
The calendar is on sale at a price of 10 euros in University 2000 shops of via Marsala 31 or at Emporio della cultura of Piazza Maggiore 1.
The proceeds will be donated to support research against colon cancer.
Buy a calendar as a Christmas present for your family and friends or else as a corporate gift.
Order and disorder, rational and irrational, creativity and systematisation. These are just a few of the dichotomies which can describe the relationship between Art and Science. These two concepts, which are only apparently conflicting, have a common root, i.e. human subjectivity.
The mission of the cross-disciplinary culture of the third millennium consists of breaking down this barrier and building up a common ground for comparison and integration.
Optical microscopes, digital cameras, microtomes and coloration techniques have been used to "extract" and make the intrinsic beauty of histological tissues observable.
We have managed to make the warm gulf of Sorrento out of a stratified keratinized epithelial cell. Thus, the duality between science and art has been overcome and has inspired this calendar.
Please see the cover and a page of the calendar attached.