The other day Maria Popova in her wonderful newsletter The Marginalian included an image from a vintage (ca. 1959) book called The Human Body: What It Is and How It Works.
(In an older Marginalian issue, she focused on the book, with copious illustrations. They're worth checking out.)
Anyway, that got me wondering about other ways the human body has been represented, so I've plucked a few highly random examples for you from the internet. Enjoy!? (And sorry in advance I couldn't find credits for all these, but I included them when I could. Click on the images to see them large.)
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| Smith's New Outline Map of the Human System, 1888 |
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| The Muscles of the Eye in Its Natural Position and the Muscle of the Eyelid, Shown Separately. From Thomas Bartholin, Anatome ex omnium veterum recentiorumque observationibus (1696) |
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| Jan Breugel the Elder, Smell (1617–18) |
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| Pietro Paolini, Allegory of the Five Senses (ca. 1630) |
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| The Five Chakras |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe, Ken Moody (1985) |
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| Tavares Strachan, Robert (2018) |
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