Anatomical Plate with Male and Female Figures, Lucas Kilian; Johann Remmelin; Stephan Michelspacher

Artwork Overview

Lucas Kilian, artist
1579–1637
1583–1632
active 1613–1619
Anatomical Plate with Male and Female Figures, 1613
Where object was made: Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany)
Material/technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 360 x 266 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 3/16 x 10 1/2 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 360 x 266 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 3/16 x 10 1/2 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2005.0069
Not on display

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Label texts

Exhibition Label:
“Embodiment,” Nov-2005, Kate Meyer
This early seventeenth-century engraved version of the “visible man” and “visible woman” allows the viewer to peel back layers of tissue to see the organs and the circulatory, nervous and skeletal systems beneath. It also offers a glimpse into a more spiritual realm, for beneath the tetragrammaton (the four Hebrew letters that form the name of God) in the upper center, are a series of flaps that allow us to descend to earth and below; they show an angel, a doctor, and a fallen angel. Beneath this last flap is a Latin text from the apocryphal Wisdom of Sirach exalting the skill of physicians and reminding us that healing comes from God.

Exhibitions

Stephen Goddard, curator
2005–2006
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
2021
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
2021