Images (Online): Pietro da Cortona anatomy plates (_Tabulae Anatomicae_, 1741)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L (The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum) from CADUCEUS-L. Russell Johnson HISTNEUR-L administrator --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:48:16 -0600 From: Ed Holtum [edwin-holtum@uiowa.edu] Subject: Online images of Pietro da Cortona anatomy plates To: caduceus-l@list.umaryland.edu, alhhs-l@mail.upstate.edu Please excuse cross-postings The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa has recently completed a project that allows a series of early 17th century anatomical images to be viewed via the Web. Pietro da Cortona, a noted Italian painter and architect of the high baroque renaissance fashioned a superb series of 27 drawings around 1618 that were later expertly engraved by Luca Ciamberlano. The plates lay unpublished for more than a century until assembled into an atlas and printed in 1741 as Tabulae Anatomicae. The John Martin Rare Book Room at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences owns a well-preserved copy of the work and recently, the images were scanned at high resolution by staff members of the Information Commons for placement on the World Wide Web. The images can be viewed in varying degrees of magnification so that the viewer can gain an appreciation of the close-up beauty and artistry of the original drawings. The new offering is the second of a series of images to be mounted in this fashion, the first being the magnificent color lithographs of Mascagni's Anatomia Universa. The web site was designed and developed by Christy Stevens, an Information Commons Graduate Assistant studying Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. Other contributors to the development of the site include Ed Holtum, Head of the John Martin Rare Book Room; Scott Fiddelke, Digital Media Project Manager; and Jim Duncan, Coordinator, Information Commons & Electronic Services. You may view the web site at: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/rbr/imaging/cortona/ You may be required to download a small plug-in to view the images. --- End Forwarded Message --- Russell A. Johnson rjohnson@library.ucla.edu Archivist and Cataloger (310) 825-6940 History & Special Collections Division Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA Box 951798 Los Angeles CA 90095-1798 http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/ Archivist (310) 825-3191 or 206-2753 Neuroscience History Archives Brain Research Institute, UCLA Box 951761 Los Angeles CA 90095-1761 http://www.NeuroscienceArchives.org