Title

Anatomy demonstration, 1493. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Anatomy demonstration, 1493. Title page of Anathomia by Mondino de' Luzzi (Mundinus). Finished in 1316, Anathomia was first published in Padua in 1478 and for upwards of a hundred years was the only textbook on anatomy. De' Luzzi (c1270-c1326) was an Italian physician and anatomist said to have been the first since ancient times to carry out human dissection. From an edition published by Martin Pollick van Mellerstadt, Leipzig, 1493.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1493

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_186

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

29,9Mb (1,8Mb) / 8,8in x 13,2in / 2642 x 3958 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian people male man men medicine arts country body science book guy anatomy medieval Renaissance location century literature demonstrating demonstration B&W corpse MONOCHROME title page Internal Organ dissection intestine cadaver black & white black and white B W mediaeval Middle Ages throne 14th century Fourteenth Century 15th century Oxford Science Archive demo fifteenth century the body woodcut Unknown Mondino de' Luzzi de' Luzzi Mondino Mundinus Mondino de' Luzzi woodcut