Illustration from the “studio of Titian” featured in De Humani Corporis Fabrica.
Featured on PDR in the essay Vesalius and the Body Metaphor
City streets, a winepress, pulleys, spinning tops, a ray fish, curdled milk: just a few of the many images used by 16th century anatomist Andreas Vesalius to explain the workings of the human body in his seminal work De Humani Corporis Fabrica. Marri Lynn explores.
Also appearing in the essay…
Illustration from the “studio of Titian” featured in De Humani Corporis Fabrica.
Artist
Date
1543
From
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
