The US National Library of Medicine's online depository of human anatomy texts, including Vesalius' classic De humani corporis fabrica libri septem from which the above print is drawn. Not only are these texts a window in to the evolution of the human understanding of the body, but they also form a core of knowledge from where modern medicine has sprung. These tesxts inform not just medicine but reach well into our collective culture, an example of which is modern artist Damien Hirst's The Virgin Mother, installed at New York City's landmark Lever House building on Park Avenue, his previous work, Hymn, from 2000 and his recent painting, The Skull Beneath the Skin, from 2005.
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