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Pietro da Cortona Anatomical drawings Rome: c.1618 MS Hunter 653 (Dl.1.29) by University of Glasgow Library on Flickr.

“This album of twenty anatomical drawings was intended to be used practically by the medical profession. Its vividly posed figures depicted within landscapes adorned with classical ruins are by Pietro Berrettini da Cortona (1596-1669), one of the most prominent artists of the Roman High Baroque. In the plate shown here, the thorax and abdomen have been opened up and the legs and arms dissected. The figure holds up a mirror - a favourite device in Baroque art - displaying his anatomised head in larger detail. The drawings are finished in brown ink and black chalk, washed with blue, sepia and grey; the nerves are highlighted with white paint. They were prepared from dissections made at the Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome in about 1618.”

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