De Humani Corporis Fabrica
21 min
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Twenty-five landmark plates from Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), the most important anatomy book ever published and one of the great illustrated books of the Renaissance. The woodcut illustrations show skeletons and écorchés (flayed figures) posing dramatically in Italian landscapes — anatomy as theater.
artanatomyscientific illustrationAndreas VesaliusRenaissancewoodcutsmedical historyDe Humani Corporis Fabrica
PublisherKafka, Kafka Originals
LanguageEnglish
Source
Wikimedia CommonsWellcome CollectionNational Library of Medicine
