Human Skeleton Standing Before Open Sarcophagus
Collection:

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)

 

Contributor(s):

Berengario da Carpi, Jacopo, approximately 1460-approximately 1530

 

Publication:

Impressum & nouiter reuissum Bononi[a]e : Per Benedictum Hectoris bibliopolam Bononiensem, anno uirginei partus 1523 sub die xv. Iulii

 

Language(s):

Latin

 

Format:

Still image

 

Subject(s):

Anatomy, Skeleton Skull

 

Genre(s):

Book Illustrations,

Pictorial Works

 

Abstract:

Full length rear view of a human skeleton holding a skull in each hand of which are shown top and right profile views; the figure stands on the lid of a sarcophagus.

 

Exhibition:

Exhibited: "Dream Anatomy," National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., October 9, 2002 to July 31, 2003.

 

Related Title(s):

Is part of: Isagogae breues, p[er]lucid[a]e ac uberrim[a]e, in anatomia[m] humani corporis a co[m]muni medicoru[m] academia usitata[m].; See related catalog record: 2222034R

 

Extent:

1 print : image 19 x 12 cm., on leaf 21 x 15 cm.

 

Technique:

woodcut, black and white

 

NLM Unique ID:

101436065

 

NLM Image ID:

A016403

 

Permanent Link:

resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436065