About This Item
Title
Muscles of a male in combat
Subject
Muscle, Skeletal--anatomy & histology
Anatomy, Artistic
Weapons
Book Illustrations
Description
Engraving by Carlo Cesio.
Lateral view of a male figure with muscles visible, ready for battle with a sword in one hand and a shield raised on the other arm.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Creator
Cesi, Carlo, 1626-1686
Source
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.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1730
Language
ita
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZAo_13b.pl16
Original Format
1 print : copperplate engraving
Physical Dimensions
35 x 21 cm
Citation
Cesi, Carlo, 1626-1686, “Muscles of a male in combat,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 28, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/1681.