attributed to Giulio Chiarugi Anatomical Male Torso (illustration for Atlas of Anatomy) 1909 photograph Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Thomas Eakins Male Torso (anatomical cast of partially dissected cadaver) 1880 bronze Philadelphia Museum of Art |
A word made Flesh is seldom
And tremblingly partook
Nor then perhaps reported
But have I not mistook
Each one of us has tasted
With ecstasies of stealth
The very food debated
To our specific strength -
A word that breathes distinctly
Has not the power to die
Cohesive as the Spirit
It may expire if He -
"Made Flesh and dwelt among us"
Could condescension be
Like this consent of Language
This loved Philology
– Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Anonymous Italian sculptor Anatomical Man (écorché) ca. 1600 bronze statuette Minneapolis Institute of Art |
George Bellows Standing Female Nude ca. 1923 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Adam Lenckhart Neptune ca. 1650 ivory statuette Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Albert Londe Male Musculature Study ca. 1890 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Ernst Neumann Studio Scenes - The Rest Period 1932 lithograph National Gallery of Canada |
Ernst Neumann Studio Scenes - The Strong Man 1931 lithograph National Gallery of Canada |
Monogrammist RS Anatomy of man and woman, with multiple liftable flaps ca. 1559 hand-colored woodcut published by Gyles Godet British Museum |
Monogrammist RS Anatomy of man and woman, with multiple liftable flaps ca. 1559 hand-colored woodcut published by Gyles Godet British Museum |
Rome Torso of dancing faun 1st century AD marble Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Reijer Stolk Figure study before 1945 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Parmigianino Left arm of a man before 1540 etching (unique impression) British Museum |
Bartolomeo Passarotti Anatomical study of arm and shoulder ca.1570 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
Anonymous English printmaker The bursting of the ventricle of the heart of King George II 1760 engraving British Museum |