About This Item
Title
Quinta musculorum tabula
Qvinta mvsculorum tabvla
Subject
Muscle, Skeletal--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 male figure with skin removed to depict muscles, anterior view. The figure tilts his head back to the sky above.
Title from caption.
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 : Ex officina Joannis Oporini, anno salutis reparatae 1543. Mense Iunio), page 184. 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
1543
Contributor
Oporinus, Joannes, 1507-1568
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZAd_25.184
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
38 x 27 cm
Citation
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?, “Quinta musculorum tabula,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 4, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2254.