A Specialty Match
Surgery
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
Andreas Vesalius · 1543
The Muscle Man
The image that founded modern anatomy.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica · 1543
Juan Valverde de Amusco · 1556
The Man Who Holds His Own Skin
A figure carrying his own flayed hide.
Historia de la Composición del Cuerpo Humano · 1556
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, engr. Jan Wandelaar · 1747
The Ideal Figure
Human anatomy as classical sculpture.
Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum · 1747
Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty · 1746
The Anatomical Angel
A dissection that looks like a winged figure.
L’Ange Anatomique · 1746
J.-B. M. Bourgery & N. H. Jacob · 1831–1854
A Bourgery Plate
The most beautiful anatomy of the 19th century.
Traité Complet de l’Anatomie de l’Homme · 1831–1854
Paolo Mascagni · 1823–1831
The Body at Life Size
Anatomy on the grandest scale ever attempted.
Anatomia Universa · 1823–1831