About This Item
Title
Andreae Vesalii
Subject
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564
Physicians
Portraits
Description
Illustration attributed to Jan Stephan Kalkar, a student of Titian.--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 170. Printed by Johannes Oporinus
Portrait of Vesalius.
Includes hand-written caption by previous owner.
Creator
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?
Source
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.
Original image in: Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica (Basileae : Oporinum, 1555), leaf a6v. ZAd 25 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1555
Contributor
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZAd_25a.a6va
ZAd_25a.a6vb
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
20 x 15 cm
Citation
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?, “Andreae Vesalii,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 4, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2253.