The iconography of Andreas Vesalius (André Vésale) anatomist and physician, 1514-1564 : paintings-pictures-engravings-illustrations-sculpture-medals, with notes, critical, literary, and bibliographical / by M.H. Spielmann.

  • Marion Spielmann
Date:
1925
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Credit: The iconography of Andreas Vesalius (André Vésale) anatomist and physician, 1514-1564 : paintings-pictures-engravings-illustrations-sculpture-medals, with notes, critical, literary, and bibliographical / by M.H. Spielmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS inquiry into the subject of the portraits of Vesalius has necessitated application to numerous authorities most likely to possess the desired information—to the directors of various museums, professors of universities, curators of galleries and collec- tions, librarians, and others. To all of them sincere thanks are due and are gratefully tendered for the readiness with which they have responded, and the interest they have shown in the work. First, and above all, Professor Dr. Paul Heger claims the expression of warmest gratitude for his continuous help, advice, and sympathy. To his influence, too, we are indebted for several of the pictures here reproduced which otherwise might have been inaccessible, and to his generosity for much of the material he had himself collected. The paramount assistance of Mr. Henry S. Wellcome and the zealous and energetic co-operation of Mr. C. J. S. Thompson (but for whom the work even now would not yet have been published) have already been gratefully acknowledged. To Dr. Arnold C. Klebs, of Ouchy and Washington, we are beholden not only for having placed at our disposal the resources of his excellent library and for supplying such information as was sought from him— for he has made a special study of Vesalius, regarded from every point of view—but also for the unique photograph which he caused to be taken of the hitherto unrecorded portrait, sculptured in relief, at Lemgo. Monsieur le Comte d'Arschot, Chef du Cabinet du Roi [des Beiges], by his valuable contribution of the family pedigree of the Van Hamme family, with their shields, has rendered possible the final rejection of certain alleged, but unauthoritative, portraits of Vesalius—a signal service for which the reader will be grateful. Monsieur Francois Courboin, Keeper of the Print Room at the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris ; and Monsieur R. Van Bastelaer, rilling a corresponding position in the Bibliotheque royale de Belgique, readily accorded such assist- ance as was requested of them in the domain of engraving, and Monsieur Michaux, engraver to the Mint in Brussels (who had certain medals of Vesalius specially struck for me, from the dies in his charge