The active poses and backgrounds incorporate elaborate Baroque landscapes and architecture, placing the figures in a spatial context and adding aesthetic interest. Furthermore, the artist viewed the specimens through a gridded net to capture the precise proportions. The complex process involved supporting the specimens with stands and cords attached to the walls and ceiling while checking the accuracy of the poses against a thin male model who posed nude in the same position. Anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus ,with artist Jan Wandelaar, carefully composed each rendering to find the optimal point of view from which the anatomy could be best viewed, and took pains to depict them in accurate proportions and shade them to convey their three-dimensional form.
Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani was arguably the most important illustrated anatomical work of the 18th century. Albinus and Wandelaar, who had already been working on their anatomical atlas for many years, proclaimed Clara as its symbol, capitalizing on her popularity with the European public to help promote their upcoming project. Wandelaar drew the exotic animal from life at the Amsterdam zoo, where the first living specimen to arrive in Europe, nicknamed Clara, was brought in 1741. The two plates offered here are renowned not only as groundbreaking anatomical illustrations that influenced generations of anatomists and artists, but for incorporating the first accurately drawn depictions of a living rhinoceros. These finely shaded and detailed copperplate engravings are from an influential and innovative atlas of human anatomy produced by anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus with artist Jan Wandelaar. Pair of anatomy prints each showing a standing human skeleton with partial musculature posed in front of a rhinoceros, one view from the front and one from the back. Woodfall for John and Paul Knapton, London, c. Plate VIIIįrom Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani What remains will be excavated from our present in centuries or millennia to come, and how do objects of ancient history tell something of that time.Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770) (editor)Ĭharles Grignion I (1717-1810) (engraver) “The discovery of something connecting us to the past allows us to think of our relationship with our present circumstance in different ways. The remains of an animal, once known for its physical prowess and stature, has been slowly transformed into delicate fragments that speak of a time lost to history. Read more: All the latest news from across Derby and DerbyshireĪ spokesperson for the new art exhibition said: “The discovery of these remains could be thought of as purely of archaeological interest, however it could point to a more expanded idea, that of time itself. The skeletal remains found their home at the Wirksworth Heritage Centre after being preserved in the Oxford Museum of Natural History. The discoveries made in a natural limestone cavern on a hillside - now known as the Dream Cave - will be available for the public to view next month. These discoveries are set to be referenced in artwork as part of a new exhibition at the Haarlem Artspace in Matlock.
RHINOCEROS SKELETON SERIES
The expedition also led the miners to discover the remains of several other animals and a series of minerals. During a mining expedition in Derbyshire in the 1800s, miners made a rare discovery of an almost intact skeleton of a Woolly Rhinoceros, dating back 43,000 years.
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