A male écorché figure, lateral view seen from the right, striding towards right, holding disc. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.

  • Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.
Date:
[between 1550 and 1559]
Reference:
100i
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Description

While Bartsch and Massari both describe this figure as holding a globe, he probably holds a discus. The discus thrower, or Discobolus, is an antique figure type described by ancient authors and was the subject of a bronze statue by Myron. Another classical reference is found in the third print of the series (Massari, i, fig 173) in which an écorché is struggling to split a tree with his hands, recalling the legend of the athlete Milon of Croton, famous for his strength, who is in old age attempted the same feat, only to be devoured by wild beasts when his hands became stuck in the cleft of the trunk

Publication/Creation

[Bologna], [between 1550 and 1559]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 15 x 10.5 cm

Lettering

IVB At lower left corner, partially effaced, bears the number: 11

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre-graveur, 21 vols, Leipzig 1854-1870, repr. Würzburg 1920-1922, xv, p. 95, no. 339 (11)
S. Massari, Giulio Bonasone, exh. cat., Rome: Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica - Calcografia, 1983, i, pp. 109-111, no. 181
L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd. ed. 1945, pp. 166-167

Reference

Wellcome Collection 100i

Notes

Eleventh in a series of fourteen anatomical prints by G. Bonasone

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