For last week’s Frontispiece Friday, we showed you the frontispiece from one of Steven Blankar

For last week’s Frontispiece Friday, we showed you the frontispiece from one of Steven Blankart’s anatomical texts (check it out here). This week, we’re offering up another Blankart frontispiece, this one from the Anatomia Reformata, published in 1687. While both of them feature Blankart presiding over the dissection of a cadaver, there are some notable differences between the two. The spectators in last week’s frontispiece were mostly dressed in garb reminiscent of classical Greece and Rome, but here everyone wears clothing typical of the 17th century Netherlands. This image also contains fewer allegorical flourishes and is much less detailed overall. We admit that we prefer the more elaborate frontispiece, but perhaps you feel differently! -- source link

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