Bodies on Display (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Bodies on Display

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Anatomical studies from the Renaissance, like this etching by a 16th century anatomist who went by the name Andreas Vesalius, are used throughout the Body Worlds exhibits and in promotional materials to potential donors to connect the display of human bodies to the age-old study of anatomy.

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Plate 2 from De Humanis Corporis Frabrica (On the fabric of the human body), Andreas Vesalius, 1543.

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