An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.

  • Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.
Date:
[between 1550 and 1559]
Reference:
26249i
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The skull held by the figure is partially obscured and is not for anatomical display, as are those held by an muscle figure in Vesalius's Epitome (Basel 1543) or by a skeleton in Berengario da Carpi's Isogogae breves (Bologna 1522) Here it is used as a symbol of death. In the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence there is a bronze model, dated to the late sixteenth century, that shows the influence of this print (Amerson 1975, no. 14, pp. 222-223)

Publication/Creation

[Bologna], [between 1550 and 1559]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; 14.9 x 10.7 cm

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Lettering

IVB At lower left corner bears the effaced number: 8

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, Leipzig 1854-1870, repr. Würzburg 1920--1922, vol. XV, p. 94, no. 336 (8)
S. Massari, Giulio Bonazone, exh. cat., Rome: Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica - Calcografia, 1978, i, pp. 109-111, no. 183
L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, pp. 166-167
L. P. Amerson, Jr., The problem of the écorché: a catalogue raisonné of models and statuettes from the sixteenth century and later periods, PhD. thesis, Pennsylvania State University 1975, Ann Arbor: U.M.I., 1976, fig. 155

Reference

Wellcome Collection 26249i

Notes

Eighth in a series of fourteen anatomical prints by G. Bonasone

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