Pietro Berrettini da Cortona(1596-1669). Tabulae anatomicae… Rome, 1741. Copperplate engraving. National Library of Medicine.
Around 1618 Berrettini made a series of extraordinary drawings that were later forgotten and only printed in 1741. The figures are emphatic anatomical entertainers who solicit attention with aggressive body language.
Nicolas Henri Jacob - Illustration for Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme comprenant la médecine opératoire (1831-1854) by Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery
Dissection of the neck and axilla, deep dissection. Neck dissected to show neck muscles, jugular veins, parotid gland and submandibular gland. Pectoralis muscles divided and removed to shown axillary artery, brachiocephalic vein, basilar vein, axillary lymph nodes and brachial plexus. Antero-lateral view.
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Sketch Representing the Backpart of the Heart, from The Anatomy of the Human Body, John Bell (1794-1804)
Style and non-style in anatomical illustration : From Renaissance Humanism to Henry Gray
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Albrecht von Haller. From Opuscula pathologica, Lausanne, 1755.
Anatomy As Art: The Dean Edell Collection
Oltre il corpo, l’uomo. Part of the astounding collection of medical wax models from the Museum of pathologic anatomy of Florence (Museo di Anatomia Patologica dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze).
Danny Quirk. Self-Dissections. “Back Dissection” © watercolor 9”x15” (dissection revealing cut superficial/inferior muscles of the back revealing the spinal chord).
Anatomy of the domestic pigeon.
From Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s animal life) vol. 6, by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna, 1893.
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