About This Item
Title
Dissection scene
Subject
Dissection
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564
Physicians
Book Illustrations
Description
Illustration attributed to Jan Stephan Kalkar, a student of Titian.--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 170. Printed by Johannes Oporinus
Title page of De humani corporis fabrica.
Vesalius performs a dissection on a woman in a theater with a large crowd in attendance. The woman's abdominal cavity is opened. A skeleton holding a staff is raised above the body.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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), leaf a1r. 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.a1r
Original Format
1 print : woodcut
Physical Dimensions
35 x 25 cm
Citation
Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546?, “Dissection scene,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 4, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2259.