title: Versions of vesalius.
abstract: Andreas Vesalius reformed anatomical knowledge and teaching in the Renaissance by adopting Galenic methods from the classical past. His careful drawings revealed the human body in unprecedented and realistic detail, but the images of himself were more ambiguous.
authors.affiliation: Clare College, Cambridge, UK. pf10006@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fara
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history; D000716:Anatomy, Artistic / Q000266:history*; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D008512:Medicine in the Arts