From a time when artists made great contributions to the understanding of human anatomy, a few more images and from Gautier d'Agoty's Anatomical Atlas and some links to further illustrations.
According to notes on the page by the Wellcome Library this was a family of artists who produced anatomical prints and paintings. The patriarch was Jacques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, born in 1717 and died around 1785. The prints are the most well known works of art both for their anatomical reference and for the manner in which they pushed the development of a color printing process similar to mezzotint printing developed by Jakob Christoffel Le Blon.
He worked with the anatomists Pierre Tarin and Joseph-Guichard Duverney and had the help of his son Arnauld-Eloi Gautier d'Agoty in making the prints.
Links to other information:
History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts. Ludwig Choulant.
Gautier d'Agoty's Anatomical Atlas - 18 images.
Two of twelve anatomical paintings - Wellcome Library, London, U.K. He made 12 anatomical paintings which resemble but do not duplicate the images from the prints.
Rachael Kavita's blog about anatomy in art.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth Century Europe. Chapter about Jacques-Fabien Gautier, or Gautier d'Agoty.
Art Experts Website
Art Experts Website
Links to 30 websites about the history of anatomical knowledge Intute: health and life sciences.
National Institute of Health Historical Anatomies of the Web.
A related link to an ebook about Anatomical Diagrams For the Use of Art Students.
Figure-Drawings.com - How to Draw People.
Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty: Anatomie generale des viscères en situation, de grandeur et couleur naturelle, avec l'angeologie, et la nevrologie de chaque partie du corps humain at the Historical Anatomies, the National Institute of Health
Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty: Anatomie generale des viscères en situation, de grandeur et couleur naturelle, avec l'angeologie, et la nevrologie de chaque partie du corps humain at the Historical Anatomies, the National Institute of Health
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hello, i love this work..im from brasil, can you tell me if there is any book of gautier work?
ReplyDeleteI put a link to a reprint above at the bottom of the blog post. What I don;t know is whether there are any illustrations in this reprint. I put another link to pages from the US National Institute of Health which does show illustrations.
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