Muscles of a standing male

Muscle, Skeletal--anatomy & histology

Anatomy, Artistic

Book Illustrations

Engraving by Carlo Cesio.

Frontal view of a male figure with muscles visible, standing while raising one arm and leg and grasping a staff.

Plate includes hand-drawn fig leaf to cover genitals made by unknown previous owner.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cesi, Carlo, 1626-1686

Original image in: Cesi, Carlo, 1626-1686. Cognitione de muscoli del corpo humano (In Roma : da Vicenzo Billy, 1730). ZAo 13b (Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Cognitione de muscoli del corpo humano, Carlo Cesi's collection of anatomic engravings for artists, was first published in Rome in 1679. Containing 16 illustrations in total, the work focuses on muscle anatomy with several stylistically posed muscle manikins, and two plates of skeletons. This extremely rare edition was published in 1730, after Cesi's death. Cesi was a 17th century Italian painter and engraver of some renown.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

1730

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StillImage

ZAo_13b.pl14

1 print : copperplate engraving

35 x 21 cm