Italian physician and anatomist (c.1270–1326)

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A dissection in progress: the anatomy professor at his lectern. Line block after a drawing after a woodcut, 1493.

Mundinus, the Italian anatomist, making his first dissection in the anatomy theatre at Bologna, 1318. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

A man seated in a chair in a landscape, holding an open book, directing a dissection which is taking place in the foreground. Line block after a woodcut, c. 1493.

Medieval medicine : Mondino's 'Anothomia' / Dino Buzzetti.

Anothomia di Mondino de' Liuzzi da Bologna, XIV secolo / a cura di Piero P. Giorgi e Gian Franco Pasini ; introduzione, ricerca anatomica, revisione del testo italiano, note critiche, biografia e bibliographia, Piero P. Giorgi ; trascrizione, apparato critico, traduzione ed iconografia, Albertino Cavazza e Gian Franco Pasini.

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Anatomia Mundini, ad vetustissimorum, erundemque [sic] aliquot manu scriptorum, codicum fidem collata, justoque suo ordini restituta / Per Joannem Dryandrum.

The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano / [Mondino dei Luzzi].

An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled "mirac". Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

De omnibus humani corporis interioribus membris Anathomia / [Mondino dei Luzzi].

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Diui Mesue et noua quedam vltra ea que secum associari co[n]sueueru[n]t opera : preclarissima vt inferius speculanti sub manus indicio demo[n]stratur.

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Mondino de Liuzzi

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A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Anatomia Mundini, ad vetustissimorum, erundemque [sic] aliquot manu scriptorum, codicum fidem collata, justoque suo ordini restituta / Per Joannem Dryandrum.

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Diui Mesue et noua quedam vltra ea que secum associari co[n]sueueru[n]t opera : preclarissima vt inferius speculanti sub manus indicio demo[n]stratur.

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Mondino de Liuzzi

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Images by Mondino de Liuzzi

Images featuring Mondino de Liuzzi

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A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Anatomia Mundini, ad vetustissimorum, erundemque [sic] aliquot manu scriptorum, codicum fidem collata, justoque suo ordini restituta / Per Joannem Dryandrum.

A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Diui Mesue et noua quedam vltra ea que secum associari co[n]sueueru[n]t opera : preclarissima vt inferius speculanti sub manus indicio demo[n]stratur.

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