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Title
Corporis humani ossa posteriori facie proposita
Corporis hvmani ossa posteriori facie proposita
Subject
Skeleton
Bone and Bones--anatomy & histology
Book Illustrations
Description
Illustration attributed to Jan Stephan Kalkar, a student of Titian.--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 170. Printed by Johannes Oporinus
Anatomical diagram of a skeletal figure, posterior view, with parts labeled. The skeleton bends forward with his hands in front of his face and appears to lament.
Title from caption.
Creator
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?
Source
Original image in: Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica (Basileae : Ex officina Joannis Oporini, anno salutis reparatae 1543. Mense Iunio), page 165. ZAd 25 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
De humani corporis fabrica is one the most influential books of anatomy. Andreas Vesalius’s text was famously illustrated by both detailed smaller sections of the body and full-body cadavers posed in the Italian countryside.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1543
Contributor
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZAd_25.165
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
38 x 27 cm
Citation
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?, “Corporis humani ossa posteriori facie proposita,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 4, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2252.