I love antique anatomical drawings of the brain. I even have a couple in my office that I should probably take a picture of to show off to you guys. These illustrations from Japan are particularly interesting. According to Pink Tentacle:
The Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls, painted in 1819 by Kyoto-area physician Yasukazu Minagaki (1784-1825), consist of beautifully realistic, if not gruesome, depictions of scientific human dissection.
Unlike European anatomical drawings of the time, which tended to depict the corpse as a living thing devoid of pain (and often in some sort of Greek pose), these realistic illustrations show blood and other fluids leaking from subjects with ghastly facial expressions.
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Those are beautiful (if, yes, gruesome)!
Did you see the NYTimes story on the stereoscopic body atlas? If you like these prints, you might like those slides.
Linked here: http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-than-skin-deep.html
Gorgeous ink washes. That's tremedously smooth gradation on the face. Difficult to do.
This would be hard to leave hanging on a wall though.
The blood dripping out of the dead guy's mouth is kewl.
The drawings are really cool, but the thought of the artist having an oozing, half-dissected head on the table is not quite as cool. ;)
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