Book Id: 32060 Plate 62 (dissected fetus) from Anatomia humani corporis. 40 x 27.5cm (image size) in a trim of 51 x 35.5 cm. Govert Bidloo, Gerard de Lairesse.

Plate 62 (dissected fetus) from Anatomia humani corporis. 40 x 27.5cm (image size) in a trim of 51 x 35.5 cm.

Publisher Information: Amsterdam: 1685. slightly dampstained around edges, otherwise very good. First edition.

This large folio by Dutch physician, anatomist, poet, and playwright Govert Bidloo contains 105 engraved plates after Gerard de Lairesse, probably by Bloteling and Peter and Philip van Gunst.

Lairesse displayed his figures with everyday realism and sensuality, contrasting the raw dissected parts of the body with the full, soft surfaces of undissected flesh surrounding them; placing flayed, bound figures in ordinary nightclothes or bedding; setting objects such as a book, a jar, a crawling fly in the same space as a dissected limb or torso. He thus brought the qualities of Dutch still-life painting into anatomical illustration, and gave a new, darker expression to the significance of dissection. De Lairesse’s images of dissected pregnancies and premature infants also reflect compassion—a quality unusual in art that was intended primarily to be scientific. Book Id: 32060

Price: $500.00

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