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| Frederick MacMonnies Young Faun and Heron 1890 bronze statuette Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Michael Ayrton Icarus Transformed I 1961 bronze Tate Modern, London |
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| Charles Donker Skull of a Heron 1970-72 etching British Museum |
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| Jacques Gamelin Winged Skeleton holding an Anatomical Drawing 1779 etching, engraving National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Anatomical Timeline
275 BC Herophilus teaches anatomy, Alexandria, Egypt; performs dissections of human bodies
ca. 150 Galen dissects apes, monkeys, cows, dogs; writes treatises on human anatomy
ca. 600-1100 Knowledge of Greek anatomical treatises lost to Western Europeans, but retained in Byzantium and the Islamic world; Islamic scholars translate Greek anatomical treatises into Arabic
1100s-1500s Galen's anatomical treatises re-enter Europe, translated from Arabic into Latin, later from the Greek originals
1235 First European medical school founded at Salerno, Italy; human bodies publicly dissected
1316 Mondino de'Liuzzi stages public dissections in Bologna; writes Anatomia
1450s Moveable type invented; copperplate engraving invented
1490 Anatomical theater opens in Padua
1491 First illustrated printed medical book published in Venice, Johannes de Ketham, Fasciculus medicinae
ca. 1500-1540 Earliest printed illustrated anatomies
1510 Leonardo da Vinci dissects human bodies, makes extensive anatomical drawings
1543 First profusely illustrated printed anatomy, Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica
1670s-1690s First museum collections of anatomical specimens; first art academies with anatomy as core curriculum
– adapted from exhibition materials issued by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
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| Hellenistic Statuette Hermes 1st century BC - 1st century AD bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| attributed to Jean Raon Jupiter (after antique marble in the Giustiniani Collection in Rome) ca. 1670 bronze statuette Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| John Sloan Anschutz on Anatomy, or, Anatomy Lesson at the New York School of Art 1912 etching British Museum |
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| David Scott Two Women laying out a Corpse before 1849 watercolor British Museum |
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| Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Figure in the pose of The Dying Gaul ca. 1792 drawing Tate Britain |
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| Henry Wallis Study for the painting Chatterton ca. 1856 drawing Tate Britain |
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| Antonio Balestra The Dead Christ ca. 1721 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Michelangelo Seated Figure and two Arm-studies ca. 1510-11 drawing Albertina, Vienna |
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| William Orpen Anatomical Study - Turning Man, after Michelangelo ca. 1906 drawing Tate Britain |
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| François Lemoyne Bacchus ca. 1730-40 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| attributed to Cesare Dandini Study of Michelangelo's statue of Night from the Medici Tombs in Florence before 1658 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |