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*084  $aVb:k
*084  $aIg
*084  $aIbvz Anatomi
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*1001 $aRoberts, K. B.
*24514$aThe fabric of the body :$bEuropean traditions of anatomical illustration  /$cK. B. Roberts and J. D. W. Tomlinson
*260  $aOxford  :$bClarendon ,$c1992
*300  $axx, 638 s., [8] pl.-bl. i färg  :$bill., faks.
*653  $aAnatomi
*653  $aAnatomisk teckning
*7001 $aTomlinson, J. D. W.$4aut
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This is the first book on this subject to be published in the English language for more than fifty years. It is a survey and anthology of the major developments, styles, and trends in anatomical illustration through more than 700 years. Anatomy was a preoccupation of renaissance scholars and artists in the universities and academies of Europe. By the mid 1500s sophisticated anatomy books were widely distributed. It was primarily the illustrations rather than the text that spread information on this descriptive science. This book shows how anatomists and their collaborating artists presented the important aspects of their subjects to doctors, medical students, and others, coincidentally revealing their attitude to the living and the dead human body. A narrative history of the context in which these illustrations were produced is supplemented by a precise consideration of the anatomy shown in each plate reproduced. The book will appeal to anyone with an academic interest in anatomy, illustrative art, or figure drawing. It is a record of an important aspect of the development of modern medicine and surgery. It is lavishly illustrated and will be a handsome production with a slip case, thus it should have a market amongst collectors of fine art and members of the medical profession.

• Anatomists, Scribes, and Printers
• Pre-Scientific Anatomical Illustration
• The Beginnings of Factual Anatomical Illustrations
• Leonardo da Vinci
• The Great Leap Forward
• Consolidation
• Baroque Anatomy
• Illustrated Anatomy Books in the Netherlands (1650-1800)
• The Classic Tradition Develops in Germany
• Italian Anatomical Engravings Circa 1800
• The Early Work in British Anatomy: Illustration to 1750
• British Obstetrical Atlases of the Eighteenth Century
• British Anatomical Illustrations, 1775-1830
• New Methods in Anatomical Illustration
• The Evolution of Illustration in Modern Anatomy Texts
• Some Themes of the Book