AN EBONY WALNUT MAPLE AND IVORY INLAID PANEL DEPICTING ALLEGORY OF DEATH

Description:

17th century
23,5 x 16,5/37 x 29 cm
Depicting a skeleton standing pensive at a table. After the illustration from the "De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem" by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), publ. 1543. Label on the reverse with reference to the exhibition L'Europe Humaniste (Palais de Baux-Arts, Brussels, 1954/55). Ebonized wave pattern moulded frame. Slight age damage. Worn.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem is a series of seven books on human anatomy, described by the physicist and anatomist Andreas Vesalius (Brussels 1514 - Zakynthos 1564), published by the Medical Institute in Padua in 1543.