Art and epigram regarding science and medicine in relation to death : being a reprint of a communication from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (Section of the History of Medicine), 1914, Vol. VII, pp. 192-217 : together with an addition on epigram and art in relation to the excessive fear of death / by F. Parkes Weber.

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Art and epigram regarding science and medicine in relation to death : being a reprint of a communication from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (Section of the History of Medicine), 1914, Vol. VII, pp. 192-217 : together with an addition on epigram and art in relation to the excessive fear of death / by F. Parkes Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ingenio, caetera mortis erunt ” {see figure). This design is by Jan von Calcar, a pupil of Titian, whose paintings were said to be almost indistinguishable from those of Titian himself. Jan von Calcar’s design Anatomical woodcut by Jan von Calcar, on p. 164 of the “ Anatomy” of Vesalius, 1543. evidently suggested the figure of Death (meditating over the apple of the garden of Paradise) in a stone relief of the Eenaissance period, figured by J. von Schlosser (“ Werke der Kleinplastik,” Vienna, 1910, i.