Muscleman, in a landscape, seen from the front. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

Date:
1940
Reference:
24366i
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The jaw bones have been separated and drawn back in this to reveal the underlying muscles and the tongue. The scalenus anterior muscle is shown extending beyond the first rib to demonstrate Galen's dependence on canine anatomy. In this and in other plates Vesalius incorporated animal anatomy in order to comment upon Galenic errors, although this sometimes had the opposite effect of drawing criticism of their perpetuation

Publication/Creation

Bern : Dr A. Wander, 1940.

Physical description

1 print : photolithograph

Lettering

Sexta musculorum tabula.

References note

D. Rosand and M. Muraro, Titian and the Venetian Woodcut, exhibition catalogue, Washington 1976
J. B. de C. M. Saunders and C. D. O'Malley, The illustrations from the works of Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, Cleveland and New York 1950, pp. 102-103, pl. 29
H. Cushing, A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, 2nd ed., Hamden, Conn. and London 1962, pp. 75-88, no. VI.A.-1

Reference

Wellcome Collection 24366i

Reproduction note

The original: is the sixth plate to the second book of the De humani corporis fabrica libri septem of Andreas Vesalius, published in Basel in 1543

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