https://www.european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/files/original/0943116c7e08236538987eff551ded79.jpg 703a4c062614f4598049d1dc6e4ddaa0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Surgical Tracts Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An anatomical dissection by Realdus Colombus, attended by onlookers Subject The topic of the resource "This is the only illustration to Realdus Colombus's De re anatomica, published in Venice in 1559, the year of his death. It is known, however, that he had planned an illustrated text. In his letter to Duke Cosimo de'Medici of 17 April 1548 he requests leave from his post as lecturer in anatomy at the University in Pisa in order to work on his busok, mentioning the assistance he is receiving from the "leading painter in the world" as well as how, on a previous stay in Rome, he dissected cadavers and supervised artists. This "leading painter" has usually been identified as Michelangelo, whose friendship with Colombus is documented in the 1553 biography of the artist by Ascanio Condivi. Colombus dispatched the body of "a young and very handsome moor" for Michelangelo to dissect and also treated him successfully for kidney stones. Colombus is noted for offering an early description of pulmonary circulation and for being a proponent of vivisection, the subject of the fourteenth book of De re anatomica. In the title page, the dissection is being followed by several observers, two of whom are consulting books, one of which is illustrated. At the lower left a young man is seated, taking notes or sketching on a pad." Description An account of the resource Collotype after a woodcut, 1559. 1 print : collotype ; image 28.2 x 20 cm Lettering Realdi Columbi Cremonensis, in almo gymnasio Romano anatomici celeberrimi, De re anatomica libri xv. Venetiis. Ex typographis Nicolai Bevilacquae. MDLIX Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wellcome https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sfhgfs67 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1559 Relation A related resource References note G. Wolf-Heidegger and A. M. Cetto, Die anatomische Sektion in bildlicher Darstellung, Basel and New York 1967, pp. 220-221, no. 133 E. D. Coppola, "The Discovery of the Pulmonary Circulation: A New Approach," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, xxxi, 1957, pp. 44-77 J. J. Bylebyl, "Realdo Colombo," Dictionary of Scientific Biography, iii, 1974, pp. 354-357 breast dissection gender ambiguity hands moor personification race science secrets tools touch