The Anatomy Theatre

A Specialty Match

Orthopaedics

A specialty match — the plates that speak to this discipline.

These are the works in the house that answer to this discipline. A plate chosen this way is not a decoration but a portrait of a life’s study — the part of the body a person has given their working life to, drawn by the masters who first understood it. Offered, as everything here is, with the gravity the works have already earned.

The plates

  • The Contemplating Skeleton — from De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Andreas Vesalius, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius · 1543

    The Contemplating Skeleton

    A skeleton, lost in thought before a tomb.

    Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt
  • The Skeleton and the Rhinoceros — from Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum, Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, engr. Jan Wandelaar, 1747

    Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, engr. Jan Wandelaar · 1747

    The Skeleton and the Rhinoceros

    An anatomy plate with a rhinoceros in the background.

    Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum · 1747
  • A Skeleton, from the Osteographia — from Osteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones, William Cheselden, 1733

    William Cheselden · 1733

    A Skeleton, from the Osteographia

    Bones drawn with the aid of the camera obscura.

    Osteographia · 1733
  • The Dance of Death — from Nouveau Recueil d’Ostéologie et de Myologie, Jacques Gamelin, 1779

    Jacques Gamelin · 1779

    The Dance of Death

    Skeletons in restless, theatrical motion.

    Nouveau Recueil d’Ostéologie et de Myologie · 1779

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