There is not much text in Albinus on Anatomy by Robert Beverly
Hale and Terence Coyle. They
present the plates as studies for art students. For fitness people and people who like pictures, the book is
all about cool drawings. Who
doesn’t need to see a skeleton, partially muscled, standing in front of a young
rhino?
Albinus, for the record, was an
anatomist (1697-1770), not the guy who drew the pictures. That was Jan Wandelaar. The account of how they worked together
is both fascinating and creepy. I
mean, what could go wrong with a naked model and a fresh corpse in winter?
My kids would have found it
absorbing and it is definitely going on display at my house in October with the
rest of the Halloween things.
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