1528 DÜRER, Albrecht (1471 – 1528)
Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion.
Written, designed, and illustrated by Dürer, this work is notable for its extraordinary series of anthropometrical woodcuts. The first two books deal with the proper proportions of the human form; the third changes th…
GMN 149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2731
1634 GRACHT, Jacob van der (1593 – 1652)
Anatomie der uuterlicke deelen van het menschelick lichaem: Dienende om te verstaen ende volkometlick wt te beelden alle beroerlicheit des selven lichaems.
The earliest of all independent works on anatomy for graphic or plastic artists. The author, a painter and etcher, drew and engraved all the images himself. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 381.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/579
1685 BIDLOO, Govert (1649 – 1713); LAIRESSE, Gerard de (1641 – 1711)
Anatomia humani corporis, centum et quinque tabulis, per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis.
This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains an engraved title, engraved portrait of Bidloo by Abraham Bloteling after Gérard de Lairesse and 105 engraved plates after La…
GMN 385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/602
1691 GENGA, Bernardino (1665 – 1734); LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654 – 1720)
Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno ricercata non solo su gl’ossi, e muscoli del corpo humano.
Contains 56 copper-plates, excellent anatomically and artistically, with commentary by Giovanni Maria Lancisi. This is one of the finest of all books on anatomy for artists. English translation with plates re-engraved…
GMN 386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/611
1724 COWPER, William (1666 – 1709)
Myotomia reformata.
This work made a modest first appearance in 1694 as an octavo, but Cowper worked until his death on a new edition which was finally published posthumously under the supervision and at the expense of Richard Mead (1673…
GMN 392.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/654
1773 RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577 – 1640)
Théorie de la figure humaine.
This work on the human figure, published more than 100 years after the death of Rubens, is one of a handful of anatomical treatises illustrated by an artist of the first magnitude.
GMN 155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3164
1779 GAMELIN, Jacques (1738 – 1803)
Nouveau recueil d’ostéologie et de myologie…
“Without contest the most beautiful of all anatomies for the artist and one of the most remarkable books of its time” (Hahn & Dumaitre). The plates in this work are more fantastic than any other anatomy, suggesting th…
GMN 401.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/781
1806 BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842)
Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting.
Bell’s artistic and literary skills combined with his knowledge of anatomy and physiology to make this work a tour de force of art history and the anatomical and physiological basis of facial expression.
GMN 6604.92 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8566
1811 MEDICO, Giuseppe del
Anatomia per uso de’pittori e scultori.
This anatomy for artists and sculptors contains 38 good copperplates in black and red.
GMN 406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/840
1812 SALVAGE, Jean Galbert (1772 – 1813)
Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux arts . . . .
Salvage's 21 plates after his own drawings "are based on three casts of bodies dissected to different anatomical layers and set in the pose of the Borghese Gladiator. For these casts he preferred to use the bodies of …
GMN 14179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16494
1816 MASCAGNI, Paolo (1752 – 1815)
Anatomia per uso degli studiosi di scultura e pittura.
Mascagni's anatomy for artists and sculptors, edited for posthumous publication by Mascagni's literary execultor Francesco Antonmarchi. 15 hand-colored engraved plates after drawings by Antonio Serantoni (1780j-1837),…
GMN 7488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9660
1829 GERDY, Pierre Nicolas (1797 – 1856)
Anatomie des formes extérieures du corps humain appliquée à la peinture, à la sculpture et à la chirurgie.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13359
1833 FLAXMAN, John (1755 – 1826); LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry (1802 – 1873)
Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists. From drawings by the late John Flaxman, Esq. R.A. Engraved by Henry Landseer. With two additional plates, and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
Digital facsimile from digitalcollections.nypl.org at this link.
GMN 411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/912
1852 KNOX, Robert (1791 – 1862)
A manual of artistic anatomy.
Knox, remembered because of his indiscreet association with the Edinburgh “resurrectionists”, was one of the best teachers of anatomy during the 19th century.
GMN 415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/945
1877 RIMMER, William (1816 – 1879)
Art anatomy.
Perhaps the first great American anatomy for artists by an American painter and sculptor. Rimmer not only drew the 900 drawings on the 81 heliotype plates, but he also wrote in the explanatory text on the sheets along…
GMN 11096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13292
1886 KOLLMANN, Julius Konstantin Ernst (1834 – 1918)
Plastische Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers.
“Illustrated with lithographs from hand-drawings, photographs from the nude, ethnic studies of facial features…The text…is of unusual historic interest, and includes special chapters on the anatomy of the infant, huma…
GMN 427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1023
1890 RICHER, Paul Marie Louis Pierre (1849 – 1933)
Anatomie artistique: Decription des formes extérieures du corps human au repos et dans les principaux mouvements. Avec 100 planches renfermant plus de 300 figures dessinées par l'auteur. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 10600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12793
1898 DUVAL, Mathias-Marie (1844 – 1907); CUYER, Édouard (1852 – 1900)
Histoire d’anatomie plastique: Les maitres, les livres et les écorchés.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1111
1900 MCCLELLAN, George (1849 – 1913)
Anatomy in its relation to art. An exposition of the bones and muscles of the human body with especial reference to their influence upon its actions and external form.
The work was offered for sale by J. B. Lippincott with title pages dated 1901. Digital facsimile of the Lippincott issue from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12781
1903 CUYER, Édouard (1852 – 1900)
Anatomie artistique des animaux.
Translated into English by George Haywood as Artistic anatomy of animals (London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox., 1904. Digital facsimile of the 1903 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link, of the English translation fr…
GMN 10101 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12290
1924 MOLLIER, Siegfried (1866 – 1954); SACHS, Hermann (1883 – 1940)
Plastische Anatomie: Die konstruktive Form des menschlichen Körpers. Mit Bildern von Hermann Sachs.
An anatomy for artists, illustrated by Hermann Sachs.
GMN 13680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15962
1945 MARSH, Reginald (1898 – 1954)
Anatomy for artists.
By the famous American social realist artist.
GMN 9177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11356
2011 FRAGONARD, Jean-Honoré (1732 – 1799); DEGUEURCE, Christophe (1966 – )
Fragonard Museum. The écorchés. The anatomical masterworks of Honoré Fragonard by Christophe Degueurce. With an essay by Laure Cadot. Translated from the French by Philip Adds.
The painter and printmaker Fragonard preserved the results of his dissections via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect r…
GMN 7005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9171
2011 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); NOVA, Alessandro (1954 – ); LAURENZA, Domenico
Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical world: Language, context and "disegno". Edited by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza.
GMN 10697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12890
2022 KORNELL, Monique; TAKAHATAKE, Naoko (1977 – ); GENSLER, Thisbe; TRAVERS, Erin
Flesh and bones: The art of anatomy. By Monique Kornell. With contributions by Thisbe Gensler, Naoko Takahatake, Erin Travers.
Chapters by Monique Kornell are: 1. The Illustration of Anatomy, 2. The Living Dead: Animated Anatomy, 3. Arts and Anatomy Books, 4. Anatomy and the Antique, 5. "As Large as Nature": Life Size Anatomical Illustration,…
GMN 13917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16211
