The dissector and the draughtsman
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 08:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Between 1831 and 1854, the French anatomist Jean-Marc Bourgery and his compatriot Nicolas-Henri Jacob, a versatile artist, produced a richly illustrated and ground-breaking medical textbook. The "Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme", an atlas of descriptive and surgical anatomy, was published in eight volumes. The work is regarded as a scholarly and artistic masterpiece, and continues to influence the aesthetics of the representation of human anatomy to this day.