About This Item
Title
Anatomia del corpo humano
Subject
Skeleton
Dissection
Book Illustrations
Description
Engraving attributed to Nicolas Beatrizet from a drawing by Gaspar Becerra.--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 205.
Title page to Anatomia del corpo humano. The image is a copy in reverse of the title page to the 1617 edition of Vesalius' De fabrica published by Jansson.--Cf. Choulant, L. Anatomic illustration, p. 206.
Two skeletons stand on a ledge around a large frame. Above the skeletons are a monkey and a pig. At the bottom of there are two dissection scenes.
Creator
Beatrizet, Nicolas, 1507?-1570?
Becerra, Gaspar, 1520?-1568?
Source
Original image in: Valverde de Amusco, Juan, approximately 1525-approximately 1588. Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano. Italian (In Roma : Per Ant. Salamanca, et Antonio Lafrerj., 1560). ZAc 1 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano, Juan Valverde de Amusco’s 1556 work of anatomy, contained 42 illustrations, all but 4 of which were copies from the work of Vesalius. This edition is an Italian translation published in 1560 with the title Anatomia del corpo humano.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
1560
Language
ita
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZAc_1.a1
Original Format
1 print : copperplate engraving
Physical Dimensions
25 x 17 cm
Citation
Beatrizet, Nicolas, 1507?-1570? and Becerra, Gaspar, 1520?-1568?, “Anatomia del corpo humano,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed May 3, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2261.