The Epitome, Plate 41

The first muscle man, facing the reader.

Work: from De Humani Corporis Fabrica Librorum Epitome
Maker: Andreas Vesalius
Date: 1543
Held by: Published Basel, 1543 · Wellcome Collection · via Wikimedia Commons

Epitome · 1543

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The story

Vesalius published two books in 1543: the vast Fabrica for scholars, and the Epitome, a thin folio of large plates for students who could not afford the first. Its figures stand full length and face the reader, the outer muscles drawn so that each could be named and found again on the body. This is plate 41 of the Wellcome Collection's copy, captioned beside the figure in Latin and again in German.

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The plate, in the room it was made for

The Epitome, Plate 41, printed large and framed — in the consulting room, the study, the library. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Epitome, Plate 41 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of from De Humani Corporis Fabrica Librorum Epitome — Andreas Vesalius, 1543 — from the copy held by Published Basel, 1543 · Wellcome Collection · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work is centuries out of copyright and in the public domain.
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