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GENGA, Bernardino. Anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegnoricercata non solo su gl'ossi, e muscoli del corpo humano; ma dimostrata ancora su le statue antiche piu insigni di Roma. Edited and with commentary by Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720). Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1691.
2o (488 x 355 mm). 56 leaves, engraved throughout. Title, frontispiece, 15 tables and indices (printed on rectos only), 40 fine plates probably by François Andriot after designs by Charles Errard. (Title slightly soiled, some occasional pale marginal spotting.) 20th-century red half morocco.
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FINEST ANATOMY BOOKS FOR ARTISTS. This work was originated by the French artist, Charles Errard (ca 1606-89), a court painter to Louis XIV, who helped found the Académie Royale de Peinture, and was the first director of the French Academy in Rome. Errard drew the famous frontispiece depicting emaciated corpses in a roundel, surrounding which are three skeletons, and probably also drew some or all of the plates of classical statuary. However, he left the project unfinished.
Genga, who was teaching anatomy to artists at the French Academy, took up Errard's unfinished project, and completed the dissections. The papal physician Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720) wrote the explanations for the plates and supplied the index. The plates were probably engraved by the Parisian engraver François Andriot (or Handeriot) (d. 1704). Thus, even though the book was as much a French project as Italian, and Genga was responsible for only a relatively small portion, the work was published under Genga's name the year after Genga's death.
"The most outstanding feature [of the book] is the presentation of a series of plates of famous antique statues 'considered anatomically.' Presented as if flayed and in several views are the Farnes Hercules (plates 24-26), the central figure from the Laocoon group (plates 27-29), the Borghese Gladiator (plates 30-35), and variations on a figure identified with the Borghese Faun (plates 36-39), now in the Louvre and also known as Silenus with the Infant Bacchus." (Cazort, Kornell, Roberts, The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy [1996] p. 217.) Choulant-Frank, pp. 254-55; Garrison-Morton 386; Heirs of Hippocrates 531; NLM/Krivatsy 4655 (variant issue of title-page with "libro primo" on title [but all published], as the Norman copy); Norman 888; Sappol, Dream Anatomy p.134; Waller 5540; Wellcome III, pp. 102-03.
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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE FINEST ANATOMY BOOKS FOR ARTISTS. This work was originated by the French artist, Charles Errard (ca 1606-89), a court painter to Louis XIV, who helped found the Académie Royale de Peinture, and was the first director of the French Academy in Rome. Errard drew the famous frontispiece depicting emaciated corpses in a roundel, surrounding which are three skeletons, and probably also drew some or all of the plates of classical statuary. However, he left the project unfinished.
Genga, who was teaching anatomy to artists at the French Academy, took up Errard's unfinished project, and completed the dissections. The papal physician Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720) wrote the explanations for the plates and supplied the index. The plates were probably engraved by the Parisian engraver François Andriot (or Handeriot) (d. 1704). Thus, even though the book was as much a French project as Italian, and Genga was responsible for only a relatively small portion, the work was published under Genga's name the year after Genga's death.
"The most outstanding feature [of the book] is the presentation of a series of plates of famous antique statues 'considered anatomically.' Presented as if flayed and in several views are the Farnes Hercules (plates 24-26), the central figure from the Laocoon group (plates 27-29), the Borghese Gladiator (plates 30-35), and variations on a figure identified with the Borghese Faun (plates 36-39), now in the Louvre and also known as Silenus with the Infant Bacchus." (Cazort, Kornell, Roberts, The Ingenious Machine of Nature: Four Centuries of Art and Anatomy [1996] p. 217.) Choulant-Frank, pp. 254-55; Garrison-Morton 386; Heirs of Hippocrates 531; NLM/Krivatsy 4655 (variant issue of title-page with "libro primo" on title [but all published], as the Norman copy); Norman 888; Sappol, Dream Anatomy p.134; Waller 5540; Wellcome III, pp. 102-03.