Tab. VIII The Skeleton, Back View, Jan Wandelaar; Bernhard Siegfried Albinus

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Jan Wandelaar; Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tab. VIII The Skeleton, Back View
Jan Wandelaar; Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, Tab. VIII The Skeleton, Back View
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus , Jan Wandelaar
Tab. VIII The Skeleton, Back View
reprinted 1748
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, author
1697–1770
Jan Wandelaar, artist
1690–1759
Tab. VIII The Skeleton, Back View, reprinted 1748
Where object was made: Netherlands
Material/technique: engraving
Credit line: Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum, University of Kansas Medical Center
Accession number: EL2020.041
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Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, a Dutch-German anatomist, has often been compared to his predecessor Andreas Vesalius: both were known for their accurate illustrations based on firsthand observations of human cadavers in various states of dissection. Albinus’s structuralist approach to understanding the human body began with the skeleton, onto which muscles were overlaid, followed by viscera, the circulatory system, and nerves. Although well-respected for the accuracy of his work and scientific methodology, Albinus also believed in the concept of homo perfectus, an idealized form of the human body. Working with artist Jan Wandelaar on the illustrations for his famous Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corpopris humani, Albinus imbued his anatomical models with this idealized and decidedly non-objective beauty characterized by symmetry and vitality.
Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, a Dutch-German anatomist, has often been compared to his predecessor Andreas Vesalius: both were known for their accurate illustrations based on firsthand observations of human cadavers in various states of dissection. Albinus’s structuralist approach to understanding the human body began with the skeleton, onto which muscles were overlaid, followed by viscera, the circulatory system, and nerves. Although well-respected for the accuracy of his work and scientific methodology, Albinus also believed in the concept of homo perfectus, an idealized form of the human body. Working with artist Jan Wandelaar on the illustrations for his famous Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corpopris humani, Albinus imbued his anatomical models with this idealized and decidedly non-objective beauty characterized by symmetry and vitality.

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Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
2021